Nyckelord Baseball

En historia om pojkdrömmar, baseboll, slagträn. Och passion för spelet och matcher. Regissören Barry Levinsson och en lång rad stjärnskådespelare som Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, Glenn Close, Kim Basinger och Barbara Hershey har skapat en film om baseboll som utstrålar en förståelse för de mytologiska egenskaper alla amerikaner förknippar med sporten.

Hank Thompson var en lovande basebollstjärna i high school, men spelarkarriären fick ett abrupt slut. I övrigt flyter livet på. Han har en fantastisk flickvän, jobbar som bartender på en bar i New York och hans favoritlag har oväntat nog en chans att ta hem ligatiteln. Men när hans granne, punkaren Russ, ber honom att passa sin katt i några dagar, dras Hank plötsligt in i ett farligt spel med en brokig skara hotfulla gangstrar. Alla verkar vara ute efter honom - problemet är att han inte har någon aning om varför. Nu måste han använda all sin list, fart och gatusmarthet för att överleva och ta reda på sanningen.

1943 öppnade tyskarna Stalag Luft North, ett fängelse med maximal säkerhet så att ingen ska kunna rymma. Trots detta lyckades nazisterna omedvetet skapa det "bästa" rymningsteam i militär historia, här porträtterat av Steve McQueen, James Garner, Charles Bronson och James Coburn – som arbetade på det som kom att bli den största rymningen någonsin.

Josh vill bli vuxen och önskar sig detta av en spåmaskin på ett nöjesfält. Morgonen därpå vaknar han upp med en 35-årings kropp. Men Josh är fortfarande samma 12-årige pojke innanför den åldrade utsidan. Nu måste han lära sig att leva i de vuxnas värld.

Bonden Ray Kinsella från Iowa inspireras av en röst han inte kan ignorera för att följa en dröm han knappt kan tro på. Med stöd av sin fru börjar Ray sin strävan genom att förvandla sitt vanliga majsfält till en plats där drömmar kan bli verklighet.

De två ensamstående föräldrarna Lauren och Jim är efter en misslyckad blinddate helt överens om att de aldrig någonsin vill träffas igen. Men de bokar av misstag in sig på samma lyxiga all-inclusive semester och tvingas nu spendera en hel vecka ihop…i samma svit.

Banditer, biljakter och kurviga blondiner – allt finns med i filmen som avslöjar den hårresande sanningen om världens tuffaste poliskår. Vincent Ludwig är en slug typ på jakt efter det stora klippet. Utan känsla för vare sig taktik eller rent spel tänker han ta kål på den engelska drottningen mitt under århundradets baseboll-match. Men då har han förstås inte räknat med Frank Drebin, superdeckaren som tar sig ton och till slut får den falske uslingen att sjunga ut.

Filmen är baserad på historien om Oakland Athletics ledare, Billy Beane, och hans framgångsrika försök att sätta samman ett baseballteam med låg budget. Han försöker att hitta potentiella spelare genom att analysera dem med ett specialgjort dataprogram.

Året är 1943. Alla amerikanska arbetsföra män får rycka ut i kriget, även de avgudade basebollstjärnorna. Lösningen blir att organisera en basebolliga för kvinnor. Talangscouter reser landet runt och handplockar de största begåvningarna.

Sommaren 1997. Noah och hans vänner ser fram emot sitt livs bästa lov – tills en mystisk kraft slår till. Barn börjar försvinna och återvänder med tomma, stirrande blickar. För att lösa gåtan slår sig gänget samman med en pensionerad polis och inser snart att sommaren döljer något långt mer skrämmande än de kunnat föreställa sig.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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. Although unwilling at first, Mihashi realizes that this is a place where he will be accepted for who he is; with help from the catcher Takaya Abe, he starts to have more confidence in his own abilities. Abe, seeing the potential in Mihashi, makes it a goal to help him become a pitcher worthy of being called an ace.

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.

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.

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.

Shigeno Daigo is an elementary student whose father, Goro, is a professional baseball player. Inspired by his father, who was once a Major League player, Daigo started playing baseball with the Mifune Dolphins, a youth team. However, he was unable to live up to the expectations of being the son of a professional, and quit baseball after less than a year. Then, in the spring of his sixth-grade year, Daigo's school welcomes a transfer student, Sato Hikaru, whose father is Sato Toshiya, a former Major League player and Goro's close friend. The fate of these two young men begins to move forward!

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.

With his major league baseball debut right around the corner, a star pitcher lands in prison and must learn to navigate his new world.

Takumi Harada is an extremely gifted baseball pitcher. Upon entering junior high school, Takumi moves to a town situated in the mountains due to his father's job transfer. There, he meets a new classmate Go Nagakura, a catcher who is able to get Takumi's most powerful pitches. Takumi and Go both join the school's baseball team where they develop a firm friendship and grow as individuals through their battery.

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?

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.

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.

Hiromichi Kojima, the star batter of the Lycaons, heads to the southern Japanese island of Okinawa to train and find a new pitcher for the team. There, he meets Toa Tokuchi, a 134-kmph pitcher and the undisputed king of a gambling form of baseball called "One Outs". At Kojima's urging, Tokuchi signs up with the Lycaons under an unusual contract: he gets 5,000,000 yen for every out he pitches, but loses 50,000,000 yen for every point he gives up. A high-level psychological game of baseball, gambling and logic is about to begin..

The dramatic and inspirational story of a young pitcher who becomes the first woman to play Major League Baseball.

Led by their fervent teacher, a high school baseball team full of delinquents vows to make it all the way to the national championship tournament.