***1/2

Rating: 9/10 (12 December 2016)

A wonderful film depicting a baseball player headed towards fame when a chance meeting with some deranged woman gets him shot by her and his career destroyed until he emerges 16 years later to play ball.
The manager of the team is hesitant to try the Redford character out, but he does and at once sees his power and potential.
The film deals with his successes, his slumps, mainly which are brought about by his relationship with a Lola type vamp, played well by Kim Basinger.
Naturally, we also have to face baseball fixing and how Redford worked above that.
Still trying to comprehend why Glenn Close received a supporting actress nomination for this film. There was absolutely nothing to her part as the woman who had a child with Redford years before and finally reunites with him. If anything, Basinger should have received an Oscar nod.