(0)
(0)
(0)Catalog Search Results
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
Standard version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Singing, dancing baseball players Dennis Ryan and Eddie O'Brien find their friendship tested when both fall for the new, female owner of their team.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (128 min.) : sound, black and white. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Lou Gehrig, the Yank's great first baseman and the son of poor immigrants, rose to heights of baseball fame -- only to be cut down at the peak of his career by an incurable disease known as ALS.
3) Bull Durham
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
American romantic comedy, dealing with a very minor minor-league team and three of its current constituents, an aging baseball groupie that beds one player each season, a cocky foolish new pitcher, and the older, weary catcher brought in to wise the rookie up.
5) Bull Durham
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Director-approved Blu-ray special edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (unpaged : illustrations).
Language
English
Description
Baseball season gets off to a rocky start when the Durham Bulls' new catcher punches out the cocky young pitcher he's just been hired to train. The sexy Annie informs both men that each season she chooses one player to share her bed.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
JB Bernstein is a once-successful sports agent who may have to close his business. To save it, he comes up with an idea so radical it just might work. Setting off for Mumbai, JB stages a televised nationwide competition called "Million dollar arm" where two young finalists emerge as winners. JB brings them back to the US with a goal: get them signed as pitchers to a major league team. While the boys learn the game, they teach JB the meaning of teamwork...
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
Widescreen version (16x9).
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When the record books closed on Boston Red Sox outfielder Jimmy Piersall's career, it showed 17 seasons in the major leagues and an impressive lifetime batting average of .272. But before all that, Piersall faced a foe much tougher: mental illness. Based on the true story.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) hears a voice, followed by a brief vision of a baseball field. He believes that if he builds a baseball diamond in his cornfield, Shoeless Joe Jackson from the infamous 1919 Chicago "Black" Sox will return to play baseball. By being willing to take a chance, Ray gets a second time up at bat in life.
9) The rookie
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a shoulder injury ended his minor league pitching career twelve years ago, Jim Morris resorted to the next best thing: coaching. But Jim's team, knowing their coach is a great ball player, makes a deal with him: if they win the district championship, they want Jim to try out for a major-league organization. Going from worst to first, the team makes it to state, and Jim is forced to live up to his end of the deal. While there prove to be a lot...
10) The sandlot 2
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ten years ago a quirky group of kids invaded the Sandlot. Now, a new generation of kids are here in a nostalgic return to the dog days of summer, playing America's favorite pastime where dreams begin and heroes are formed.
11) The fan
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When all-star centerfielder Bobby Rayburn becomes mired in the worst slump of his career, his obsessive #1 fan Gil Renard decides to stop at nothing to help his idol regain his former glory⁵not even murder.
12) Field of dreams
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Blu-ray format.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by a mysterious voice, Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella constructs a baseball diamond in the middle of his cornfield.
13) The sandlot
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Fifth-grader Scotty Smalls has just moved into town with his parents. The local kids call him a Dork because he can't even throw a baseball. That changes when the leader of the neighborhood gang recruits him to play on the nearby sandlot field. It's the beginning of a magical summer of baseball, wild adventures, first kisses, and fearsome confrontations with the dreaded Beast and its owner who live behind the left field fence. Soon nine boys have...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The champion ball club The Wolves' success depends on the powerhouse double-play combination of O'Brien to Ryan to Goldberg. Trouble is O'Brien and Ryan would rather be pursuing their vaudeville career than playing baseball that is until the team gets a new owner, beautiful K.C. Higgins. And when a professional gambler who has bet heavily against The Wolves tries every dirty trick he knows to influence the outcome of the big game, it's the baseball...
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (71 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"And it's one, two, three strikes you're out at the old ball game - forever. The St. Louis Cardinals may be a hard-luck club rallying toward the pennant, but with a killer afoot, they're on a losing streak - of lives! A brisk, well-played matchup of whodunit and national pastime, Death on the Diamond boasts a roster of all-stars who hit this improbable plot out of the park with humor and conviction. After batboy Mickey Rooney finds acid-laced gloves...
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Widescreen version (1.85:first).
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An unlikely friendship ignites between two baseball players. One is the team's ace pitcher and social charmer; the other is the catcher, a farm boy from Georgia who lacks sophistication. During their last season together, the two men grow in manhood and respect for themselves and each other.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Morris Buttermaker, an alcoholic pest removal worker and former (briefly) professional baseball player, is recruited to coach and train a failing baseball team. All of these twelve-year-olds have been thrown out of the league. After losing every game they have played in so far, the kids force the coach to straighten up and teach them how to win before the season is over.
19) Eight men out
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on the real-life scandal of 1919, the film tells the story of eight baseball players who plan to throw games for money, and the scorn and anger the scheme earned them.
Interlibrary loan through ILLiad
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Knox County Public Library can be requested from other libraries to be delivered to your pickup location.
Suggest a purchase
If it is too new for interlibrary loan (6 months), you can place a suggestion with us. Suggest a Purchase