Question: Who directed the movie that featured three animals and featured the voice work of National Baseball Hall of Fame manager?

Context articles: Lincoln Stars (baseball)
Veterans Committee
1905 New York Giants season
Jack Buck
Tommy Lasorda
Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco
José Méndez
Golden Era Committee
Jesse Gonder
Rod Carew

The Lincoln Stars (also known as the Lincoln Stars of New York or the New York Lincoln Stars) were a Negro league baseball team that played in New York City from 1914 to 1917.
 Their home stadium was the Lenox Oval, located at Lenox Avenue and 145th Street in Manhattan.
 Although they lasted less than four years, they were a good team that featured three players who would later be elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame—Oscar Charleston, John Henry Lloyd, and Louis Santop.
The Veterans Committee was the popular name of the National Baseball Hall of Fame Committee to Consider Managers, Umpires, Executives and Long-Retired Players; a former voting committee of the U.S. Baseball Hall of Fame that provided an opportunity for Hall of Fame enshrinement to all individuals who are eligible for induction but ineligible for consideration by the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA).
 The term "Veterans Committee" (was composed of four committees of baseball veterans) is taken from the body's former official name: National Baseball Hall of Fame Committee on Baseball Veterans (1953).
The 1905 New York Giants season was the franchise's 23rd season, and the team won their second consecutive National League pennant.
 They beat the Philadelphia Athletics in the World Series.
 This team featured three Hall of Fame players – catcher Roger Bresnahan, and pitchers Christy Mathewson and Joe McGinnity – along with Hall of Fame manager John McGraw.
John Francis "Jack" Buck (August 21, 1924 – June 18, 2002) was an American sportscaster, best known for his work announcing Major League Baseball games of the St. Louis Cardinals.
 His play-by-play work earned him recognition from numerous Halls of Fame, such as the National Baseball Hall of Fame, the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and the National Radio Hall of Fame.
 He has also been inducted as a member of the St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame Museum.
Thomas Charles Lasorda (born September 22, 1927) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher who is best known for his two decades as manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
 In 2017, he marked his 68th season in one capacity or another with the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers organization, the longest tenure anyone has had with the team, edging Dodger broadcaster Vin Scully by two seasons.
 He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame as a manager in 1997.
Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco is a 1996 American adventure comedy film and a sequel to the 1993 film "".
 Directed by David R. Ellis, the film features the three animals from the first film, Shadow the Golden Retriever (voiced by Ralph Waite, replacing Don Ameche, who died in 1993), Sassy the Himalayan cat (Sally Field), and Chance the American Bulldog (Michael J. Fox).
 It also features the voice work of Sinbad, Carla Gugino, Tisha Campbell-Martin, Stephen Tobolowsky, Jon Polito, Adam Goldberg, Al Michaels, Tommy Lasorda, and Bob Uecker.
José de la Caridad Méndez (March 19, 1887 – October 31, 1928) was a Cuban right-handed pitcher and manager in baseball's Negro Leagues.
 Born in Cárdenas, Matanzas, he died at age 41 in Havana.
 Known in Cuba as "El Diamante Negro" (the "Black Diamond"), he became a legend in his homeland.
 He was one of the first group of players elected to the Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame in 1939.
 He was elected to the U.S. National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2006.
The Golden Era Committee ("The Committee") is one of three 16-member committees of National Baseball Hall of Fame members, appointed by the Board of Directors of the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2010 to replace the former Veterans Committee to consider and elect eligible candidates to the Hall of Fame not eligible by the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) ballot.
 Beginning in 2011, the Golden Era Committee (consisting of eight Hall of Fame members, five executives, and three media members) considers and then elects (first election, December 5) to the Hall of Fame every 3 years, retired Major League Baseball players that are no longer eligible for election by the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BWAA) along with managers, umpires, and executives from the 1947 to 1972 era.
Jesse Lemar Gonder (January 20, 1936 – November 14, 2004) was an American professional baseball player.
 A catcher, he appeared in 395 games in the Major Leagues over eight seasons (1960 –67) for the New York Yankees, Cincinnati Reds, New York Mets, Milwaukee Braves and Pittsburgh Pirates.
 Gonder batted left-handed, threw right-handed, and was listed as 5 ft tall and 180 lb .
 He played for Baseball Hall of Fame manager Casey Stengel with both the Yankees (1960) and Mets (1963–65).
Rodney Cline Carew (born October 1, 1945) is a former Major League Baseball (MLB) first baseman, second baseman and coach of Panamanian descent.
 He played from 1967 to 1985 for the Minnesota Twins and the California Angels and was elected to the All-Star game every season except his last.
 While Carew was never a home run threat (only 92 of his 3,053 hits were home runs), he made a career out of being a consistent contact hitter.
 He threw right-handed and batted left-handed.
 He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and the Caribbean Baseball Hall of Fame.
 Carew served as an MLB coach for several years after retiring as a player.