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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.
Apr 14, 1986 · 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. Pete Gray had to overcome the early taunts of his childhood playmates.
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- Biography, Drama, Family
- Mel Damski
The 1986 television-movie A Winner Never Quits, starring Keith Carradine and Mare Winningham, and the publication of Gray's biography, One-Armed Wonder: Pete Gray, Wartime Baseball, and the American Dream written by William C. Kashatus, published in 1995 by McFarland & Company, renewed public interest in Gray.
A Winner Never Quits (1986) Keith Carradine - The Story of a One Arm Baseball Player. The true story of Pete Gray, a young boy who lost his right arm in a childhood accident, but went...
- 94 min
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- Chzz77 Dacan
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
One-armed outfielder Pete Gray (Keith Carradine) makes it to the major-league St. Louis Browns in the 1940s. A great film about arguably the most amazing person who ever played the game of...
- Biography
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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.
