"Japan will have to do something radical to save its league, " Fitts acknowledges.

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Ricky Fitts, played by Wes Bentley, is a troubled soul who pines for Jane and is befriended by her increasingly unstable father, Lester.

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Robert Fitts, author of the book Remembering Japanese Baseball, thinks it will take a Herculean sales job to convince the proud baseball community to allow foreign ownership.

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Fitts has an annoying habit of videotaping everyone around him and his footage, (his POV, or point-of-view), is used as a counterpoint to the story and is artfully intercut as part of the film.

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Fitts, is played by Chris Cooper.

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