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Mr. Baseball
From Universal Pictures · Outlaw · Pacific Artists
He's the biggest thing to hit Japan since Godzilla!
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Jack Elliot, a one-time MVP for the New York Yankees is now on the down side of his baseball career. With a falling batting average, does he have one good year left and can the manager of the Chunichi Dragons, a Japanese Central baseball league find it in him?
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Cast & crew
Directed by Fred Schepisi
Tom Selleck
Ken Takakura
Aya Takanashi
Dennis Haysbert
Art LaFleur
Larry Pennell
Kosuke Toyohara
Mak TakanoVideos
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GenerationofSwineJan 12, 2023
Well, it's not the best film, however Mr. Magnum... Baseball... Tom Selleck does a great job of playing a stuck-up, egotistical chauvinistic well, zhlob and it might sound like an insult, but that is where the charm is. It's a movie where, at it's heart, it shows that Baseball transcends international boundaries... and I firmly believe that once the rest of the world realizes it's better than soccer, that will be true. However, in the meantime, it's also a movie about the… Read more
worst possible culture shock and the worst possible person to experience it. And, of course, it promises a happy ending, it promises that Mr. Baseball will learn from his mistakes, and it promises that baseball will prevail. And, of course, it delivers on that promise like all movies like this too, and, again, that is the charm. But, really, it's a baseball movie and it takes a lot to make them bad.