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Sep 16, 2023 · Billy Chapel (Kevin Costner) is on the verge of pitching an extremely rare perfect game. Buy/Rent For The Love Of The Game: YouTube: • For Love of the Game Amazon:...
- 5 min
- 305.6K
- Universal Pictures
Starring Kevin Costner and Kelly Preston, it follows the perfect game performance of an aging star baseball pitcher as he deals with the pressures of pitching in Yankee Stadium in his final outing by calming himself with memories of a long-term relationship.
Sep 17, 1999 · Detroit Tigers Veteran Pitcher Billy Chapel (Costner) has always been better at baseball than at love. Just ask Jane (Preston), his on-and-off girlfriend. After a bad season, just before he is about to start in what could be his final game, Jane tells Billy that she's leaving him...for good.
- (38K)
- Drama, Romance, Sport
- Sam Raimi
- 1999-09-17
Apr 22, 2023 · No, ‘For the Love of the Game’ is not a true story, and, consequentially, Billy Chapel was not a real baseball player. The story as well as the character of Billy Chapel originated from the imagination of the late Michael Shaara, whose eponymous book on which the screenplay by Dana Stevens is based.
For Love of the Game is a novel by American author Michael Shaara, published posthumously in 1991. The book tells the story of fictional baseball great Billy Chapel, thirty-seven years old and nearing the end of his career.
- Michael Shaara
- 1991
Forty-year-old pitcher Billy Chapel (Kevin Costner) is practically a dinosaur by professional baseball standards, fast approaching the end of his career.
- (95)
- Drama
- PG-13
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Baseball great Billy Chapel, 40, wants nothing more than to reconnect with his one-time lover, Jane Aubrey. On the morning he's to pitch the last game of the season, she tells him she's leaving that evening for a job in London; he also learns that the Detroit Tigers' new owners plan to trade him.