Nyckelord Baseball Pitcher

En fyrtioårig basebollpitcher får reda på att hans flickvän tänker lämna honom och de nya ägarna av laget tänker göra sig av med honom - ikväll har han inget att förlora och allt att vinna.

När San Francisco Giants betalar centerfieldern Bobby Rayburn (spelad av Wesley Snipes) 40 miljoner dollar för att leda laget till seger i World Series blir ingen gladare än hans största supporter, Gil Renard (spelad av Robert De Niro). Så när Rayburn plötsligt börjar spela sitt sämsta spel under hela sin karriär, skyr den besatte Renard inga medel för att hjälpa sin idol att komma tillbaka i gammal god form. Allt är tillåtet för att hjälpa honom, till och med mord?

Dokumentär om basebollspelarna Liván och Orlando 'El Duque' Hernández, halvbröder från Kuba som under dramatiska former flytt till USA för en dröm om spel i högsta serien Major League Baseball.

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.

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.

A wild and overzealous baseball player is scouted and trained by the Yomiuri Giants as their new star pitcher.

This is the story of Natsunosuke Honda, a pro baseball player—a relief pitcher who has been playing pro in a team called Spiders for 8 years. The team operates as a highly-stratified society, where the player's performance determines his annual salary. Natsunosuke is one of the highest paid players in the game. He measures how good players are by how much money they make, and he intends to be on top and stay there, and as such is always looking for players to challenge and does everything to insure that he is better than they are.

The first female professional baseball player who strikes out sluggers with her magical pitch... The manager who makes every effort to amend the Baseball Regulations so that she can join the pros... The separated twin brothers who couldn't have met each other if they weren't both totally absorbed in baseball... This series describes the joys and distress, the glory and frustration of those who enthusiastically love baseball.

A young boy, J. Shuro, meets the legendary pitcher Eiji Sawamura in the Philippines during World War II. Sawamura shares his dreams of one day gathering the nine Astro Superhumans – who all were born nine minutes and nine seconds past nine on September 9th of the 29th year of Showa (1954) and all have baseball-shaped birthmarks on their bodies – to form the ultimate baseball team capable of beating the Yomiuri Giants and any U.S. Major League team. When Sawamura dies during the war, Shuro decides to help fulfill his idol’s dream and goes in search of the nine ball players. But the team that is formed does not play ordinary ball. These extraordinary players demonstrate extraordinary plays on the field and some will not stop until everything – even their lives – is left on the field.