1998年、ニューヨーク。メジャーリーグのドラフト候補になるほど将来有望だったものの、運命のいたずらによって夢破れた若者・ハンク。バーテンダーとして働きながら、恋人のイヴォンヌと平和に暮らしていたある日、変わり者の隣人・ラスから突然ネコの世話を頼まれる。親切心から引き受けたのもつかの間、街中のマフィアたちが代わる代わる彼の家へ殴り込んでは暴力に任せて脅迫してくる悪夢のようなの日々が始まった！ やがてハンクは、自身が裏社会の大金絡みの事件に巻き込まれてしまったことを知る──が、時すでに遅し！ 警察に助けを求めながら戦々恐々と逃げ続けていたある日、ついに大きな悲劇が起こる。理不尽な人生に堪忍袋の緒がブチギレたハンクは、一念発起して自分を巻き込んだ隣人やマフィアたちにリベンジすることを決意する──！
かつてはマイナー・リーグで活躍した事もあるプール清掃人バターメーカーは、市議会からの要請で少年野球チーム“ベアーズ”のコーチを任せられる。だが問題児ばかり抱えた“ベアーズ”が強くなる事など絶対不可能だと知ったバターメーカーは、昔の恋人の娘で抜群の投球センスを持つアマンダと、オートバイを乗り回している不良少年ケリーをチームに加え、連勝街道に乗り出していく。
大ヒットした「がんばれ！ベアーズ」の続編。ヒューストン名物のアストロドームでの遠征試合が実現したベアーズ一行は、子供たちだけでテキサスへと向かう。ヒューストンには今やチームのリーダー的存在となったケリーの別れた父親がおり、ケリーは父にチームのコーチを頼む。互いの誤解も解けようやくアストロドームでの試合と相成るが、相手チームの猛攻に試合時間がどんどんなくなり、ベアーズは最大の危機を迎える……。
元プロ野球選手で短気な性格のビリー・ビーンは、アスレチックスのゼネラルマネージャーに就任する。チームはワールド・チャンピオンになるには程遠い状態で、優秀な選手は雇えない貧乏球団だった。あるとき、ピーター・ブランドというデータ分析にたけた人物との出会いをきっかけに、「マネーボール理論」を作り上げる。しかし、「マネーボール理論」に対し選手や監督からは反発を受けてしまい……。
カーニヴァルの夜、望みをかなえる魔王のボックスにコインを入れた主人公が、翌朝目覚めると少年からオトナに成長していた。親友の協力によって玩具メーカーに就職した主人公だったが、持ち前の自由な発想が社長に認められめきめき昇格していく……。
ロサンゼルス市警のドレビン刑事は、自分が有能なタフガイだと信じるが実はそれほどでもなく、むしろトラブルメーカーになりがちだ。そんなとき、ロサンゼルスを英国のエリザベス女王が来訪する。一方、ドレビンはヘロイン密輸事件を捜査していてある財閥を調べるが、その過程で知り合った美女ジェーンと親密になり、彼女と恋に落ちてしまう。やがてドレビンは、何者かがエリザベス女王の暗殺計画を進行させていると気付く。
第2次世界大戦中のドイツ。脱走不可能と謳われた捕虜収容所から、連合軍兵士250名が前代未聞の脱出計画を図る……。実際に集団脱走に加わっていたポール・ブリックヒルによる原作をもとにした、不朽の名作映画。
野球の才能にあふれるリッキー･ヒルの実話に基づく物語。小さな町の牧師の息子であるリッキーは、子供の頃から変形性脊椎症を患っていたが、非常に優れた野球の才能の持ち主だった。彼の父親は、リッキーがケガをするのではないかと心配し、さらに自分と同じように牧師になってほしいという思いから、リッキーに野球を諦めさせようとする。しかし父親の望みに反し、信仰と野球への愛を胸に、リッキーは野球を続ける。メジャーリーグのスカウトに見てもらうチャンスを得たリッキーは、プロになるという夢を実現するため、最悪な体のコンディションと家族との衝突を乗り越えようとする―。
アイオワ州の田舎町に住むレイ・キンセラは貧乏農夫。若い頃に父親と口論の末に家を飛び出して以来、父の顔を見る事も、口をきく事すらもなかったことを悔やんでいた。ある日、彼はトウモロコシ畑を歩いていると謎の声「それを造れば、彼が来る」と耳にする。彼は、周囲の人々があざ笑うのをよそに生活の糧であるトウモロコシ畑を切り開き、小さな野球場を造り上げる。
黒人初のメジャーリーガー、ジャッキー・ロビンソンの伝記ドラマ。白人の世界だったメジャーリーグに飛び込み、偏見や差別に屈することなく奮闘した彼の姿を描く。1947年、ブルックリン・ドジャースと契約を交わし、黒人初のメジャーリーガーとしてデビューしたジャッキー・ロビンソン。人種差別の激しかった当時、チームメートや他球団の選手、マスコミや民衆からの汚いヤジや数々の仕打ちに耐えながら、黙々とこん身のプレーを続けるジャッキーの姿に、周囲は心を動かされていく…。
米大リーグ、インディアンズの新オーナーは、自分の好きなマイアミに球団本拠地を移すため、観客動員数を最低レベルにまで落とそうと三流選手を集めるが……。チャーリー・シーンらの好演が光る、笑って泣けるスポーツ・コメディの決定版。
若くして野球の天才と呼ばれるが、凶弾によって球界入りを遅らされ、35歳にして“奇跡のルーキー”として活躍する事になった男ロイ・ホッブス。その男の半生を「レインマン」のバリー・レヴィンソン監督が詩情豊かに綴った作品。R・レッドフォード主演。
1943年、第二次世界大戦真只中のアメリカ。プロ野球選手たちも次々と戦場へ駆り出され、大リーグの運営は危機を迎えていた。オレゴンの片田舎に住むソフトボール・リーグ選手、ドティ・ヒンソンとキット・ケラーの姉妹のところへ、ある日プロ野球のスカウトマンが訪ねてきて、近く発足する全米女子プロ野球リーグに参加しないかと誘う。
1969年、ニューヨーク上空に珍しいオーロラが出現した日、消防士フランクは救助を終え、妻ジュリアと6歳の息子ジョンの待つ家へと戻ってきた。親子3人の生活は幸福な輝きで満たされていた。ちょうどその日のオーロラのように。だが、その2日後、フランクは殉職する。息子ジョンは深い哀しみに暮れる。それから30年。再びニューヨークにオーロラが出現した日、ジョンはふと父が愛用していた無線機を見つける。そしてそこから男の声が聞こえてくる……。まるでそれは父と話しているようだった。
ひいきの野球チームの選手を、公私ともにサポートすることが生きがいのアニー。今年の彼女の“獲物”はノーコン投手のヌーク。彼をめぐり、捕手のデイヴィスとの奇妙なトリプル・プレイが始まった。人生の喜びと悲哀を豪華キャストで描くラヴ・ストーリー。
Scouted for his potential, brash left-handed pitcher Eijun Sawamura joins baseball powerhouse Seido High to become the undisputed ace of the team.
Honda Goro the son of a famous baseball player loves nothing more than baseball itself. His biggest dream is to show his father that he can become the best pitcher in the world despite all the hardships he had to endure he keeps on running towards his goal at full speed.
Twins Kazuya and Tatsuya, and their neighbor Minami have played together since they were children and built an unbreakable bond. But with puberty, the twins realized something: Minami is a girl, and three is a crowd. As the trio tries to preserve their relationship, Kazuya's pledge to make Minami's dream come true by taking her to Koshien with his baseball pitching skills makes the slackerish Tatsuya wonder about himself, and his own goals. But Minami has another dream she wants fulfilled, and as the twins continue to push themselves, with Minami in the middle, a life-changing tragedy leads one twin down a path he once never would've considered...
Ren Mihashi was the ace of his middle school's baseball team, but due to his poor pitching, they could never win. Constant losses eventually lead to his teammates bullying him and reached the point where his teammates no longer tried to win, causing Mihashi to graduate with little self-esteem. As a result, Mihashi decides to go to a high school in a different prefecture where he has no intention of playing baseball. Unfortunately, upon his arrival at Nishiura High, he is dragged into joining their new team as the starting pitcher.
Because of the legend left by Tatsuya Uesugi, Meisei Academy High School was well-known for their strong baseball team. But 26 years after their glory, the team has not been able to keep their record and has since lost their fame. Two stepbrothers, Souichirou and Touma Tachibana, aim to revive of the once-strong Meisei Academy baseball team and enter the National High School Baseball Championship. Souichirou and Touma are second years in Meisei Academy Middle School. Both boys are talented baseball players. Souichirou has shown excellent skill as a catcher and batter. Though having an extraordinary skill as a pitcher, Touma no longer pitches due to a certain reason. Once the two enter high school, they pair as a battery and aim to enter the National High School Baseball Championship!
The history of the sport of baseball in America, told through archival photos, film footage, and the words of those who contributed to the game in each era. Writers, historians, players, baseball personnel, and fans review key events and the significance of the game in America's history.
A famed major league baseball announcer who suffers an embarrassing and very public meltdown live on the air after discovering his beloved wife's serial infidelity decides to reclaim his career and love life in a small town a decade later.
Follow the journeys of Simone Hicks, a tennis hopeful from Beverly Hills, and elite baseball player Damon Sims from Chicago, as they navigate life at the prestigious HBCU Bringston University.
Kō Kitamura, whose family owns a sporting goods store, has known the Tsukishima girls since he was born. The Tsukishima family runs a batting center and cafe, and they have four daughters. There's Ichiyo, the responsible eldest; Wakaba, Kō's cheerful best friend; Aoba, who doesn't get along with Kō; and Momiji, the energetic youngest daughter. When Kō enters high school, he aspires to lead his baseball team to the Koshien National High School Championship as their ace pitcher and make Wakaba's dream come true.
Years after he turned his back on his hometown, a burned-out major league ballplayer returns to teach phys ed at his old middle school.
Kishimoto Kasumi, a 15-year-old girl, was supposed to live at her auntie's house in order to go to high school since April. However, when she moved to the house she was surprised with the fact that there were already four new male students living in the same house. To make the matter worse, that day while she was taking a bath, Takasugi Yusaku, one of those boys, came into the bath and saw her naked. This is how Kasumi's troublesome high school days started.
Star pitcher Haruka Kiyomine and skilled catcher Kei Kaname were an unstoppable duo—until Kei was hit with a curveball: amnesia. Now they have a second chance to play at a no-name high school with a team of past rivals. Can they overcome Kei’s memory loss and rekindle their baseball dreams? With hilarious hijinks and fierce competition, get ready for a strikeout.
Keiko Himuro, Chairman of the Kisuragi School, puts together an all-girl baseball team led by Ryo Hayakawa, daughter of a legendary pitcher, in hopes of proving that girls can compete just as well as boys. Their goal: Koshien stadium, where only the best teams get the opportunity to play.
Kunimi Hiro is a high school student, who is forced to give up his ambitions as a professional baseball player due to a serious injury. Now at a new high school, Hiro gets involved with Haruko and her goals of reviving that school's baseball team. At first they must overcome the refusal of school principle, who still remembers a dishonorable defeat that the school's baseball suffered some ten years earlier. Even with permission to form a school baseball team, there are still the players to recruit and train, and the challenges of building a reputation of the team within the high school baseball circuit. This is a story of group of high school students and their love of the game of baseball. Hiro is national class pitcher and batter, with his best friend who is a catcher and with Haruko as the team manager, together they struggle to build a baseball team worthy of the national championship.
Emanating from Studio 42 -- named in honor of Jackie Robinson -- in MLB Network's Secaucus, N.J., headquarters, this series features the Hall of Fame-worthy interview skills of Bob Costas talking baseball with the legends of the game, Hall of Famers in their own right. Guests including Willie Mays, Bob Feller, Hank Aaron, George Brett, Reggie Jackson and Cal Ripken Jr. have graced the replica baseball field-designed studio set, reminiscing with Costas about their days on the diamond while also discussing current events and issues surrounding the game. Costas has also spent time on the show with broadcasters Al Michaels and Ernie Harwell, entertainer and big-time baseball fan Billy Crystal, and fronted episodes discussing baseball in Cuba and the state of umpiring.
With his major league baseball debut right around the corner, a star pitcher lands in prison and must learn to navigate his new world.
Minami joins her High School baseball team as a team manager after finding out that her best friend Yuuki is in the hospital and can't be a team manager any more. In order to try to fill in for Yuuki and to help out the team the best she can, she goes out to find a book on how to manage a baseball team. Unfortunately, she accidentally buys Peter Drucker's book called "Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices" which is actually about how to properly manage a business. Because she couldn't return the book, she decides to read it anyway and to try to apply the business management concepts to the baseball team so that way they can go on and win the Nationals.
Se Young is the youngest head of the management team of Dreams, a cellar-dwelling baseball team. She's highly recognized for her perseverance and intense passion for the team. One day, Seung Su is appointed as a general manager. Although he's been working in the sports field, the teams he led to the championship were unpopular, and some of them were even disbanded after winning the league due to the financial difficulties of their parent companies. Would this unlucky new general manager be able to steer Dreams to the championship with passionate Se Young?
The hourlong weekday afternoon "MLB Now" presents the day's top stories in baseball by spanning the sport's cultural divide. Host Brian Kenny discusses the issues and provides analysis, with a bent toward modern analytics to prove his points. The series also features interviews with personalities throughout the game, and viewer opinions are welcome as well via social media polls.
The dramatic and inspirational story of a young pitcher who becomes the first woman to play Major League Baseball.
