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Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (approximately 405 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The bad news Bears: An aging, down-on-his-luck ex-minor leaguer coaches a team of misfits in an ultra-competitive California little league.
The bad news Bears in breaking training: A troubled, rebellious teen drives his rambunctious baseball team out to Houston where they play an exhibition game and the boy meets his estranged father, and hires him as the teams coach.
The bad news Bears go to Japan: A small time hustler takes the pint-sized baseball...
3) Battle creek
Author
Publisher
Rob Weisbach Books
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
265 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
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.
5) 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...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xvi, 255 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Traces the ... story of Merl Eberly and his Clarinda A's baseball team, which he tended over the course of five decades, transforming them from a town team to a collegiate summer league powerhouse. Along with Ozzie Smith, future manager Bud Black, and star player Von Hayes, Merl developed scores of major league players (six of which are currently playing). In the process, Merl taught them to be men, insisting on hard work, integrity, and responsibility"--Dust...
Publisher
Bridgestone Multimedia Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a small-town baseball coach gets the offer of a lifetime from a larger 6A High School, he uproots his family and leaves the only home he's ever known and soon faces opposition to his coaching methods from the school superintendent.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Don Zimmer had his first taste of baseball glory in 1948 as a member of a national champion American Legion team. He was drafted by the Brooklyn Dodgers, only to have his career—and life—threatened when he was beaned in a minor league game in 1953.
After a miraculous recovery, he went on to play for Brooklyn's only world-championship team in 1955, the L.A. Dodgers' first world-championship team four years later, and as an original
...Publisher
Detour Filmproduction
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 106 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A profile of University of Texas baseball coach Augie Garrido, the winningest coach in any sport in NCAA Division I history. He is the winner of five National Championships (3 at Cal State Fullerton and 2 at UT) and the only coach to win National Championships in four different decades and at two different schools. The film examines this remarkable coach's career and unique approach to teaching the game with unprecedented access to his team meetings,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
“There are teachers with a rare ability to enter a child’s mind;
it’s as if their ability to get there at all gives them the right to stay forever.”
There was a turning point in Michael Lewis’s life, in a baseball game when he was fourteen years old. The irascible and often terrifying Coach Fitz put the ball in his hand with the game on the line and managed to convey such confident trust in Lewis’ ability...
it’s as if their ability to get there at all gives them the right to stay forever.”
There was a turning point in Michael Lewis’s life, in a baseball game when he was fourteen years old. The irascible and often terrifying Coach Fitz put the ball in his hand with the game on the line and managed to convey such confident trust in Lewis’ ability...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxxvii, 451 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In this revelatory biography, Allen Barra presents Yogi's remarkable life as never seen before, from his childhood in "Dago Hill, " the Italian-American neighborhood in St. Louis, to his leading role on the 1949-53 Yankees, the only team to win five consecutive World Series, to the travails of the '64 pennant race, through his epic battles and final peace with George Steinbrenner. Features one hundred photos and countless "Yogi-isms."
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