Mr. Baseball is a 1992 American film that starred Tom Selleck and was directed by Fred Schepisi.
Jack Elliot is an aging American baseball player put on the trading block by the New York Yankees in favor of a younger player (played by former Chicago White Sox legend Frank Thomas), and there's only one taker: the Nagoya Chunichi Dragons of Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.
Right away, the arrogant Elliot clashes with the Japanese culture and h...
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Mr. Baseball is a 1992 American film that starred Tom Selleck and was directed by Fred Schepisi.
Jack Elliot is an aging American baseball player put on the trading block by the New York Yankees in favor of a younger player (played by former Chicago White Sox legend Frank Thomas), and there's only one taker: the Nagoya Chunichi Dragons of Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.
Right away, the arrogant Elliot clashes with the Japanese culture and he soon alienates his new teammates. He believes the rules and management style of his new skipper, Uchiyama (Ken Takakura) are ludicrous and continues to do things his way, which leads his already dwindling performance to suffer more. His only ally on the team is another American ballplayer, Max "Hammer" Dubois (Dennis Haysbert), but even he's fed up with Jack's attitude and lack of respect for the game and his team.
At the same time, Elliot develops a relationship with the beautiful Hiroko (Aya Takanashi), whom he later finds out is Uchiyama...
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