Aging minor league pitcher Gus Cantrell is planning to retire, but then Roger recruits Gus to be the manager of the South Carolina Buzz, the Twins AAA minor league team. Gus’s mission is to make a real team out of a bunch of players who include ballet dancer turned ballplayer Lance “Lance the Dance” Pere, Frank “Pops” Morgan, Rube Baker, Taka Tanaka, Pedro Cerrano, Hog Ellis, home run hitter Billy “Downtown” Anderson, and Carlton “Doc” Windgate, who throws the slowest fastball in professional baseball. Gus ends up clashing with Leonard Huff, the snobby, arrogant manager of the twins. One night in Minnestoa, Gus and his girlfriend Maggie Reynolds are having dinner with Roger and Huff at an expensive-looking restaurant, where Huff challenges Gus to a game between the Buzz and the Twins, then Huff starts a fight with Gus, who accepts the challenge. The game is scheduled to take place at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in Minnesota. The Twins take a 3-0 lead in the 6th inning, but Billy …
Release Date: 17 April 1998Runtime: 100 min
Stars:
- Corbin Bernsen
- Dennis Haysbert
- Eric Bruskotter
- Jensen Daggett
- Judson Mills
- Kenny Johnson
- Lobo Sebastian
- Peter Mackenzie
- Scott Bakula
- Takaaki Ishibashi
- Ted McGinley
- Thom Barry
- Tim DiFilippo
- Tom DiFilippo
- Walton Goggins
Director: John Warren
