Mr. Baseball

(1992)

★ 5.9 IMDb · 154 votes

Genres: Comedy

Year: 1992

Runtime: 108 мин

Country: United States of America, Japan

Director: Fred Schepisi

Cast: Том Селлек, Кэн Такакура, Aya Takanashi, 塩屋俊, Деннис Хэйсберт, Art LaFleur, Nicholas Cascone, Larry Pennell, Toshizo Fujiwara, 豊原功補

Plot

Jack Elliot, a one-time MVP for the New York Yankees is now on the down side of his baseball career. 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?

Although a one-time MVP for the New York Yankees, Jack Elliott is now on the down side of his baseball career. His batting average is low and one of his few claims to fame is that during the previous year, he led the team in 9th inning doubles in the month of August. With an up and coming slugger ready to replace him, he learns that he's been traded to the Chunichi Dragons of the Japanese Central baseball league. Elliott is set in his ways and quite inflexible, not only in accepting Japanese culture in general, but also with the way the baseball team is managed. When he meets his very pretty PR agent, Hiroko, he begins to gain a greater appreciation that he should accept his current situation. When he realizes her other connection to the team, his attitudes begin to change at an even greater pace