À primeira vista, Lauren e Jim parecem ter muito em comum, mas depois de um desastroso primeiro encontro estão de acordo em apenas uma coisa: nunca mais se voltarem a ver. No entanto, uma inesperada viagem a um resort na África do Sul vai colocar as famílias de ambos no mesmo caminho e não será fácil sobreviverem uma à outra.
Leslie Nielsen interpreta o agente da Esquadra da Polícia Frank Drebin, com um rosto de granito e a cabeça ainda mais dura, que tropeça num plano para assassinar a Rainha Isabel. Priscilla Presley, O. J. Simpson, um castor embalsamado, duas equipas de basebol e uma estranho conjunto de outras personagens avulso juntam-se à tresloucada aventura, rebentando por completo a escala das gargalhadas.
Para reduzir o risco de fugas, a Luftwaffe decidiu transferir para um campo de prisioneiros de segurança máxima uma parte dos seus mais audaciosos prisioneiros de guerra Aliados, quase todos com um longo currículo de fugas fracassadas. Decididos a não baixar os braços e a, pelo menos, provocarem a maior confusão possível entre os captores Alemães, um grupo de prisioneiros decide organizar uma fuga em massa de 250 prisioneiros numa só noite.
A história de Billy Beane, Director-Geral da equipa norte-americana de basebol Oakland Athletics, e da sua bem sucedida tentativa de reunir uma equipa de basebol com um orçamento diminuto, através da utilização da análise computorizada para contratar os jogadores.
Após um incidente em que é impedido de andar numa montanha-russa por ser ainda novo, o jovem Josh, num momento de revolta, pede a uma máquina Zoltar (que imita um adivinho ou mago) para ser grande. No dia seguinte, para sua surpresa, o pedido foi de facto realizado e tem de fugir de casa após a mãe não o reconhecer e tomar por um intruso mal-intencionado. Josh, porém, continua a ser só uma criança, agora perdida no mundo complicado dos adultos, onde precisará de se ir adaptando.
Lisa, é, desde criança, uma atleta de alta competição e tem como grande paixão o baseball, pelo que, quando é dispensada da sua equipa, toda a sua vida deixa de fazer sentido. Sem saber que direcção tomar, Lisa começa a sair com Matty, uma estrela de baseball, com um ego enorme e muito mulherengo. George é um sério homem de negócios, que tem uma relação bastante complicada com o seu pai - Charles. No entanto, George é injustamente acusado de um crime fiscal, e o seu pai é a única pessoa que o pode ajudar. Quando tudo parecia estar a desmoronar-se na vida de Lisa e George, os dois conhecem-se na pior noite das suas vidas, e vão descobrir que também existem coisas maravilhosas...
EUA, década de 1950. Na juventude, Troy Maxson era um jogador de basebol extraordinário. Mas quando as ligas principais começaram finalmente a receber atletas negros, ele era demasiado velho para ser aceite. Sem alternativas, tornou-se trabalhador dos saneamentos de Pittsburgh, tal como Jim, um amigo de todas as horas. Apesar do seu coração generoso e do esforço para ser bom pai e marido, Troy deixa-se consumir pelo desgosto de ter sido obrigado a abandonar os seus sonhos, ficando por vezes amargo e excessivamente exigente consigo e com os outros. Até que uma decisão impensada faz ruir tudo à sua volta…
Jogador de baseball é obrigado a se aposentar após acidente. Dez anos depois ele começa a treinar um time, o que pode lhe dar uma nova chance.
Um fazendeiro de Iowa, Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner), ouve a seguinte frase: "se você construir, ele virá". No início Ray achou que era apenas sua imaginação, pois sua mulher, Annie (Amy Madigan), não ouviu nada e a filha deles, Karin (Gaby Hoffman), também nada escutou. Além disto a voz não explicava o que devia construir e quem viria em razão disto. Ray tem algumas visões e entende que deverá construir um campo de baseball, o que fará com que "Shoeless" Joe Jackson (Ray Liotta) volte a jogar. Acontece que Joe não jogava há mais de 50 anos, pois em 1920, juntamente com outros 7 jogadores, foi acusado de entregar o campeonato e impedido de jogar para sempre. Joe nem estava vivo e, mesmo sabendo que construir um campo de baseball iria afetar sua plantação de milho e o deixaria em uma delicada posição financeira, Ray resolve acatar o pedido da voz. O que estava para vir era algo que Ray e sua família não poderiam imaginar.
Através de um misterioso portal temporal, um filho comunica com o seu pai, falecido precocemente há trinta anos, através de um velho rádio amador. Os dois vão tentar manipular o passado de modo a evitar a morte e alterar o futuro.
*42* conta a história de dois homens – o grande Jackie Robinson e o lendário Branch Rickey, do Brooklyn Dodgers – cuja valente posição contra o preconceito mudou para sempre o mundo, começando pelos jogos de beisebol. Em 1946, Branch Rickey se posicionou a frente da história quando colocou Jackie Robinson na equipe, quebrando a linha racial da Liga Principal de Beisebol. Mas isso também colocou Robinson e Rickey na linha de fogo do público, da imprensa e, até mesmo, dos outros jogadores. Enfrentando o racismo desmedido de todos os lados, Robinson foi forçado a demonstrar tremenda coragem e autocontrole ao não reagir da mesma forma, sabendo que qualquer incidente poderia destruir suas esperanças e as de Rickey. Em vez disso, o número 42 deixou o seu talento no campo falar por si, e acabou conquistando os fãs e seus companheiros de equipe, silenciando os críticos e abrindo o caminho para que outros seguissem.
Após descobrir que está perdendo a visão, um olheiro veterano embarca numa última viagem com a sua filha para analisar um jogador promissor e encontram um ex jogador que segue a carreira de olheiro. Agora eles terão que resolver problemas do passados e vislumbrar o futuro no que é chamado de curvas da vida.
Depois de 19 anos jogando o jogo que ele amou a vida inteira, o arremessador do Detroit Tigers, Billy Chapel, tem que decidir se vai arriscar tudo e colocar tudo para fora.
Para qualquer um que já sofreu qualquer tipo de gozação ou humilhação, seus heróis estão aqui!. Rob Schneider, David Spade e Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite) estrelam os três caras mais velhor que sabem o que é ser maltratado. Após terem visto uns garotos malvados maltratando o filho de um amigo, eles decidem reagir formando um time de baseball para desafiar o melhor time de baseball mirim do estado. Agora, com a torcida de todos os nerds e garotos esquisitos da cidade, estes perdedores estão prestes a ter um dia inesquecível nesta comédia bem humorada do diretor de O Paizão e Um Maluco no Golfe e do produtor Adam Sandler.
Retrato da América durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, quando a falta de homens para praticar o beisebol levou as mulheres a encarar esse esporte.
Onde Nasce a Esperança é a história inspiradora sobre a redenção através da amizade, da esperança e do amor. Calvin Campbell é um ex-jogador de beisebol profissional que enfrenta dificuldades com as jogadas que o destino preparou para ele. Sua vida ganha um novo sentido quando conhece Produce, um jovem garoto com Síndrome de Down que trabalha no supermercado do bairro. Com o desenvolvimento desta amizade, Calvin recorda que às vezes a esperança pode crescer mesmo onde não se espera.
O jogador de baseball da liga principal, Moe Berg (Paul Rudd), vive uma vida dupla trabalhando para a Agência de Serviços Estratégicos. Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, ele trabalhou como oficial de inteligência, viajando em missão para diversas localidades.
Honda Goro the son of a famous baseball player loves nothing more than baseball itself. His biggest dream is to show his father that he can become the best pitcher in the world despite all the hardships he had to endure he keeps on running towards his goal at full speed.
Shigeno Daigo is an elementary student whose father, Goro, is a professional baseball player. Inspired by his father, who was once a Major League player, Daigo started playing baseball with the Mifune Dolphins, a youth team. However, he was unable to live up to the expectations of being the son of a professional, and quit baseball after less than a year. Then, in the spring of his sixth-grade year, Daigo's school welcomes a transfer student, Sato Hikaru, whose father is Sato Toshiya, a former Major League player and Goro's close friend. The fate of these two young men begins to move forward!
Keiko Himuro, Chairman of the Kisuragi School, puts together an all-girl baseball team led by Ryo Hayakawa, daughter of a legendary pitcher, in hopes of proving that girls can compete just as well as boys. Their goal: Koshien stadium, where only the best teams get the opportunity to play.
Twins Kazuya and Tatsuya, and their neighbor Minami have played together since they were children and built an unbreakable bond. But with puberty, the twins realized something: Minami is a girl, and three is a crowd. As the trio tries to preserve their relationship, Kazuya's pledge to make Minami's dream come true by taking her to Koshien with his baseball pitching skills makes the slackerish Tatsuya wonder about himself, and his own goals. But Minami has another dream she wants fulfilled, and as the twins continue to push themselves, with Minami in the middle, a life-changing tragedy leads one twin down a path he once never would've considered...
Kishimoto Kasumi, a 15-year-old girl, was supposed to live at her auntie's house in order to go to high school since April. However, when she moved to the house she was surprised with the fact that there were already four new male students living in the same house. To make the matter worse, that day while she was taking a bath, Takasugi Yusaku, one of those boys, came into the bath and saw her naked. This is how Kasumi's troublesome high school days started. (Source: AniDB)
Kunimi Hiro is a high school student, who is forced to give up his ambitions as a professional baseball player due to a serious injury. Now at a new high school, Hiro gets involved with Haruko and her goals of reviving that school's baseball team. At first they must overcome the refusal of school principle, who still remembers a dishonorable defeat that the school's baseball suffered some ten years earlier. Even with permission to form a school baseball team, there are still the players to recruit and train, and the challenges of building a reputation of the team within the high school baseball circuit. This is a story of group of high school students and their love of the game of baseball. Hiro is national class pitcher and batter, with his best friend who is a catcher and with Haruko as the team manager, together they struggle to build a baseball team worthy of the national championship.
Eijun Sawamura is a pitcher who joins an elite school with a brilliant catcher named Kazuya Miyuki. Together with the rest of the team, they strive for Japan's storied Koushien championships through hard work and determination.
Although the city of Fukuoka might look relatively peaceful at first glance, in actuality it houses a thriving mixture of dangerous individuals such as killers, detectives, and professional revenge seekers right beneath its surface. Among their number is Zenji Banba, a laidback and observant detective who is investigating the work of other hitmen companies in the area. However, Banba might not be the only one with a bone to pick with these organizations, as Xianming Ling, a crossdressing male hitman in the employ of one such company begins getting fed up with his lack of jobs and pay. One day, after Ling's current target commits suicide before the hitman could reach him, his company refuses to pay him even half the amount they were originally supposed to for the assassination. Frustrated, Ling requests another mission and is offered the job of taking out Banba, whom his organization believes has been interfering with their business. However, when Banba arrives at his home and finds the hitman inside, Ling surprisingly doesn't even attempt to kill him. Instead, he offers the detective another option: to join him and form a team. With the offer on the table, exactly how will Banba respond, and just what plans does Ling have in store for the underground world of Fukuoka?
Ren Mihashi was the ace of his middle school's baseball team, but due to his poor pitching, they could never win. Constant losses eventually lead to his teammates bullying him and reached the point where his teammates no longer tried to win, causing Mihashi to graduate with little self-esteem. As a result, Mihashi decides to go to a high school in a different prefecture where he has no intention of playing baseball. Unfortunately, upon his arrival at Nishiura High, he is dragged into joining their new team as the starting pitcher. Although unwilling at first, Mihashi realizes that this is a place where he will be accepted for who he is; with help from the catcher Takaya Abe, he starts to have more confidence in his own abilities. Abe, seeing the potential in Mihashi, makes it a goal to help him become a pitcher worthy of being called an ace.
Kō Kitamura, whose family owns a sporting goods store, has known the Tsukishima girls since he was born. The Tsukishima family runs a batting center and cafe, and they have four daughters. There's Ichiyo, the responsible eldest; Wakaba, Kō's cheerful best friend; Aoba, who doesn't get along with Kō; and Momiji, the energetic youngest daughter. When Kō enters high school, he aspires to lead his baseball team to the Koshien National High School Championship as their ace pitcher and make Wakaba's dream come true.
In her Junior High years, the pitcher Yomi Takeda was not able to get very far in a cross-school baseball tournament. Since the catcher on her team wasn't at her level, she couldn't use her signature move, the "Magic Throw," and eventually regretted not being able to use it. After Junior High, she decided to stop playing baseball and went to Shin Koshigaya High School, a school without a baseball club. There, she found her long lost childhood friend, Tamaki Yamazaki, who used to play catchball with her when they were kids. Tamaki also played baseball during her Junior High years as a catcher, and could even catch Yomi's "Magic Throw!" Their promise with each other during their childhood could now be fulfilled! Walking together on the road of baseball once again... The story of the girls who love baseball will begin!
Se Young is the youngest head of the management team of Dreams, a cellar-dwelling baseball team. She's highly recognized for her perseverance and intense passion for the team. One day, Seung Su is appointed as a general manager. Although he's been working in the sports field, the teams he led to the championship were unpopular, and some of them were even disbanded after winning the league due to the financial difficulties of their parent companies. Would this unlucky new general manager be able to steer Dreams to the championship with passionate Se Young?
The series follows the romantic and professional trials of an aspiring nurse and two baseball players as they strive for their love and dreams.
Takumi Harada is an extremely gifted baseball pitcher. Upon entering junior high school, Takumi moves to a town situated in the mountains due to his father's job transfer. There, he meets a new classmate Go Nagakura, a catcher who is able to get Takumi's most powerful pitches. Takumi and Go both join the school's baseball team where they develop a firm friendship and grow as individuals through their battery.
This is the story of Natsunosuke Honda, a pro baseball player—a relief pitcher who has been playing pro in a team called Spiders for 8 years. The team operates as a highly-stratified society, where the player's performance determines his annual salary. Natsunosuke is one of the highest paid players in the game. He measures how good players are by how much money they make, and he intends to be on top and stay there, and as such is always looking for players to challenge and does everything to insure that he is better than they are.
A famed major league baseball announcer who suffers an embarrassing and very public meltdown live on the air after discovering his beloved wife's serial infidelity decides to reclaim his career and love life in a small town a decade later.
Amateur baseball players go up against legendary pros in a championship to determine the ultimate winning team.
Star pitcher Haruka Kiyomine and skilled catcher Kei Kaname were an unstoppable duo—until Kei was hit with a curveball: amnesia. Now they have a second chance to play at a no-name high school with a team of past rivals. Can they overcome Kei’s memory loss and rekindle their baseball dreams? With hilarious hijinks and fierce competition, get ready for a strikeout.
In 1925 (year 14 of the Taishō period), after being told by a baseball player that women should become housewives instead of going to school, two 14-year-old Japanese high school girls named Koume and Akiko decide to start a baseball team in order to prove him wrong. During this time, when even running was considered too vulgar for women, baseball is known as "what the boys do" and they face many difficulties when searching members, getting permission from their parents and when learning about the sport itself.
