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A Winner Never Quits is a 1986 television film based on the true story of baseball player Pete Gray, the first one-armed man ever to play major league baseball, hired in 1943 as a "freak attraction" and wartime morale-booster by the Memphis Chicks, Class-A minor league ball club.
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Apr 14, 1986 · A Winner Never Quits: Directed by Mel Damski. With Keith Carradine, Mare Winningham, G.W. Bailey, Charles Hallahan. Fact-based story of a young boy who lost his right arm in a childhood accident, but went on to fulfill his dreams of playing major-league baseball.
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- Biography, Drama, Family
- Mel Damski
- 1986-04-14
Sentimental dramatization of Pete Gray's story. Keith Carradine (with one arm tied behind his back) plays the one-armed baseball player of the 1940s who not only realized his dream of playing in the major leagues (he was with the St. Louis Browns briefly) but inspired a handicapped youngster....
- Mel Damski
- Regi Green
The true story of Pete Gray, a young boy who lost his right arm in a childhood accident, but went on to fulfill his dreams of playing major-league baseball.W...
- 94 min
- 1230
- Chzz77 Dacan
A Winner Never Quits (TV Movie 1986) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Fact-based story of a young boy who lost his right arm in a childhood accident, but went on to fulfill his dreams of playing major-league baseball. Pete Gray had to overcome the early taunts of his childhood playmates.
Raised in a poor Pennsylvania mining town by his immigrant parents, Pete Grey lost his right arm while still a young boy. But through the encouragement of his father and the constant coaching of his older brother, Pete never gives up on his dream of playing professional baseball.
