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5.8

Mr. Baseball

PG-13·1992·108m

Comedy

Summary

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?

Cast

Tom Selleck

Jack Elliot

Ken Takakura

Uchiyama

Aya Takanashi

Hiroko Uchiyama

Dennis Haysbert

Max 'Hammer' Dubois

Toshi Shioya

Yoji Nishimura

Kosuke Toyohara

Toshi Yamashita

Toshizo Fujiwara

Ryoh Mukai

Mak Takano

Shinji Igarashi

Kenji Morinaga

Hiroshi Kurosawa

Joh Nishimura

Tomohiko Ohmie

Norihide Goto

Issei Itoi

Kensuke Toita

Akito Yagi

Naoki Fuji

Takuya Nishikawa

Takanobu Hozumi

Hiroshi Nakamura

Leon Lee

Lyle Massey

Jun Hamamura

Hiroko's Grandfather

Mineko Yorozuyo

Hiroko's Grandmother

Shōji Ōki

Coach Hori

Tomoko Fujita

Hiroko's Assistant

Kinzō Sakura

Umpire #1

Ikuko Saiton

Morita-san

Hikari Takano

Commercial Director

Art LaFleur

Skip

Greg Goossen

Trey

Nicholas Cascone

Doc

Larry Pennell

Howie Gold

Scott Plank

Ryan Ward

Charles Fick

Billy Stevens

Michael McGrady

Duane

Frank Thomas

Rookie

Michael Papajohn

Rick

Rolando Rodriquez

Manuel

Todd A. Provence

Young Ball Player

Frank Mendoza

Player - New York

Ken Medlock

Umpire

Carrie Jean Yazel

Coed in Bed

Mary Kohnert

Player's Wife

Makoto Kuno

Japanese Sportscaster

Michiyo Washizuka

Japanese Sportscaster

Shinsuke Aoki

Nikawa

Rinzoh Suzuki

Sato

Shintarô Mizushima

Sugita

Nobuyuki Kariya

Uemoto

Satoshi Jinbo

Tsuboi

Masanao Matsuzaki

Koboyshika

Shôtarô Kusumi

Takahashi

Katsushi Yamaguchi

Kobayashi

Hiro Nagae

Mutsui

Yoshimi Imai

Ishimara

Cin Chi Cheng

Itami

Makoto Kakeda

Umpire #2

Shogo Nakajima

Umpire #3

Bradley Jay Lesley

Niven

Garry Bassin

Bartender (uncredited)

Bob Costas

Himself (voice) (uncredited)

James Corey Kaufman

Fan (uncredited)

Tim McCarver

Himself (voice) (uncredited)

Adam Vargas

Cheering fan behind home plate (uncredited)

Crew

Director

Fred Schepisi

Screenplay

Kevin Wade

Screenplay

Monte Merrick

Screenplay

Gary Ross

Story

John Junkerman

Story

Theo Pelletier

Reviews

GenerationofSwine

January 12, 2023

Well, it's not the best film, however Mr. Magnum... Baseball... Tom Selleck does a great job of playing a stuck-up, egotistical chauvinistic well, zhlob and it might sound like an insult, but that is where the charm is.

It's a movie where, at it's heart, it shows that Baseball transcends international boundaries... and I firmly believe that once the rest of the world realizes it's better than soccer, that will be true. However, in the meantime, it's also a movie about the worst possible culture shock and the worst possible person to experience it.

And, of course, it promises a happy ending, it promises that Mr. Baseball will learn from his mistakes, and it promises that baseball will prevail. And, of course, it delivers on that promise like all movies like this too, and, again, that is the charm.

But, really, it's a baseball movie and it takes a lot to make them bad.