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Oct 2, 1992 · Mr. Baseball: Directed by Fred Schepisi. With Tom Selleck, Ken Takakura, Aya Takanashi, Dennis Haysbert. Jack Elliot, once a great baseball player, is forced to play in Japan where his brash, egotistical ways cause friction with his new teammates and friends.
Mr. Baseball is a 1992 American sports comedy film directed by Fred Schepisi, starring Tom Selleck, Ken Takakura, Dennis Haysbert, and Aya Takanashi.
Mr. Baseball. Nearing the end of his career, an aging American baseball MVP experiences a comedic culture clash when he's traded to a Japanese team. With Dennis Haysbert. 1,878 IMDb 6.0 1 h 48 min 1992.
Apr 15, 1999 · MR. BASEBALL is a film of paradoxes. Written and filmed as a "light, sports comedy" it truly has a heartwarming core as human and universal as some of Capra's finest.
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A professional American baseball player whose career is on the wane, Jack Elliot (Tom Selleck) gets traded to the Dragons, a Japanese team. Openly unhappy about the change, Elliott isn't...
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Maybe because style is as important as story in a movie like this, and “Mr. Baseball” is not without a certain flair. The movie stars Tom Selleck, convincing as a heavy-hitting first baseman who is traded to Japan by the New York Yankees. He's not a paragon of virtue.
Jan 9, 2012 · Jack Elliot is an aging American baseball player put on the trading block by the New York Yankees in favor of a rookie first-baseman, and there's only one taker: the Nagoya Chunichi Dragons of ...
Mr. Baseball (1992) was released near the end of that run, and although exhibiting many of the clichés of formula sports films, it has an appealing style and humor and offered Selleck a chance to show his considerable comic range as a washed-up ball player traded to a Japanese team.
Jack Elliot, once a great baseball player, is forced to play in Japan where his brash, egotistical ways cause friction with his new teammates and friends. Although a one-time MVP for the New York Yankees, Jack Elliott is now on the down side of his baseball career.
Oct 2, 1992 · With a falling batting average, does he have one good year left and can the manager of the Chunichi Dragons, a Japanese Central baseball league find it in him? Jack Elliot, a one-time MVP for the New York Yankees is now on the down side of his baseball career.
