The rookie throw of the ball

Rating: 6/10 (1 August 2013)

A rather likable and old fashioned tale. It is a film in two halves where you first see Dennis Quaid as a High school baseball coach who is persuaded to try out as a professional pitcher late in life.
The second half of the film is his search to be the oldest Rookie in the major league. Armed with a demon pitch, he can thrown the ball at over 90 miles per hour, he is taken seriously from the off.
The film defies expectations, there are no villains, not much of the old timer jokes, very little in the way of chicanery.
A rare film where everybody is nice to each other and a genuine lack of cynicism, especially as it is based on a true story.