Joe Mantegna
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Jul 11, 1992 · With Joe Mantegna, Natalya Negoda, Michael Lerner, Mark Rolston. To teach a team of Russian wanna-be baseball players the finer points of the all-American game is no easy task, but for a grudgingly resentful, recently fired baseball manager from the States, the task is formidable.
- (391)
- Comedy, Sport
- Tommy Lee Wallace
- 1992-07-11
The Comrades of Summer is a 1992 television film featuring Joe Mantegna and Natalya Negoda. It was directed by Tommy Lee Wallace, written by Robert Rodat and aired on HBO on July 11, 1992. Plot. Major League Baseball manager Sparky Smith is fired from his job with the Seattle Mariners.
1 hr 46 mins. Comedy. R. Watchlist. Joe Mantegna stars as an ex-big leaguer who signs on to coach the Russian Olympic baseball team. Natalya Negoda. George: Michael Lerner. Voronov: Mark Ralston....
A disgraced manager of the Seattle Mariners baseball team, Sparky Smith (Joe Mantegna), finds work in Russia running their Olympic team after the fall of the Soviet Union.
- (131)
- Tommy Lee Wallace
- R
- Joe Mantegna
Synopsis. Sparky Smith (Joe Mantegna) is the would be player manager of the Seattle Mariners, the culmination of a long and successful career. He is living during the death rattle of the baseball player as superstar era. America was growing tired of the egos, the salaries, the strikes.
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Jul 11, 1992 · Overview. Sparky Smith (Joe Mantegna) was manager of the Seattle Mariners until he had one too many shouting matches with the team's owner (Michael Lerner) and winds up fired. Now Sparky's ready to coach any team who'll have him.
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