Ah yes, the adage from the classic baseball movie Field of Dreams is true - If you build it, they will come.
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Moneyball is a baseball movie about Billy Beane and the Oakland Athletics.
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The Yankees will open the season Monday with some names and faces unrecognizable to many fans, like some fictitious Yankees team played by actors in a baseball movie.
There is something notable about how a famously alpha-dude baseball movie headlined by Pitt, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Jonah Hill is bookended by the sign-up and sign-off of two women.
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The new movie 42, mainly about baseball legend Jackie Robinson and his rookie year playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, is, in equal parts, a paean to his consummate athletic talent and a bearing witness to his resilience as the first African-American player in big league baseball.
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He matured into an athlete with movie-star looks, brandishing baseball bats and tennis rackets with the same intensity as his later heroes would wield swords.
In 2006, filmmaker Kerry Yo Nakagawa sent him a rough cut of "American Pastime, " a low-budget movie about Japanese American internees who played baseball inside the camps.
There is, certainly, a great movie to be made about a young baseball player from the islands or South America who enters an American-run baseball academy, gets a tryout with a minor-league franchise, suffers the cultural dislocations of American wealth and strangeness, and then, on the verge of success, hits a rock somewhere and capsizes before he can get to the majors.
In the movie, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics baseball team, Billy Beane (played by Brad Pitt), struggles to put together a competitive team as the franchise faces financial challenges.
Traffic rushing to Weiland's 2010 Lin piece briefly crashed the Hoops Analyst website after Lin torched the Lakers for 38 points Friday, and his wisdom has been compared with the groundbreaking number-crunching in the baseball best seller "Moneyball, " which became a recent Hollywood movie.
In the meantime, he is able to join sponsors and the producers of "42" in taking students from Abraham Lincoln High School, in Brooklyn's coastal Coney Island neighborhood to a screening of the movie on the 66rd anniversary of the day Robinson broke major league baseball's color barrier.
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