The Rookie [Blu-ray]

The studio that brought you REMEMBER THE TITANS presents another unforgettable film based on a true story. Dennis Quaid stars in THE ROOKIE -- now more triumphant than ever on Blu-ray Disc(R). High school coach Jim Morris (Dennis Quaid) thought his dream was over. He'd had his shot playing baseball blew out his shoulder and retired without ever reaching the big leagues. Then in 1999 he made a bet with his perpetually losing team: If they won the district championship Morris -- who threw a 98 mph fastball -- would try out for the majors. The team went from worst to first and Jim was soon on the road to becoming the oldest rookie in the major leagues! Feel the sun on your face as you savor the view from the pitcher's mound in the breathtaking clarity of high definition. Thrill to the thunderous roar of the crowd with spectacularly enhanced audio quality. Everyone will cheer as they experience this inspiring story in Blu-ray™ High Definition!System Requirements:Running Time: 127 Mins.Format: BLU-RAY DISC Genre: DRAMA/FAMILY LIFE Rating: G UPC: 786936749786 Manufacturer No: 05594000
Customer Review: The Rookie...
An excellent family movie. It doesn't get any better than this as far as family movies go. No foul language and NO nudity. It is a drama that is fun to watch as a family stuggles to deal with the father's sudden thrust into the limelight of an aged baseball player. One man's dream of being in the major leagues comes true....
Customer Review: Soooooo slow, it's painful
Oh my God, if this movie was any slower, it'd take a month to watch. They went a little nutso with the musical score, too. But what really irks me is why they used a Scot, Brian Denis, to play Morris' father. You might remember Denis as the milky-eyed uncle of William Wallace in Braveheart ("You've got the look of your mother." "learn to use this, it'll teach you to use this.")and as the alcoholic father of Daphne Moon in "Frasier." They couldn't find, out of 158 million American males, an American to play an Amercian in a baseball film, set, guess where, in American? I guess Chow Young Phat was too busy to accept the role. Why not have Charo play his American mom? Shame on Diznee. Muy malo pelicula.

The teachings of baseball instruction and baseball strength training before the 1920s were crucial in the beginning years of America's pastime. In a time when homeruns were not nearly as popular as they have been in the last ten years, the "dead ball" era was a time of brilliant coaches using chess type baseball strategies and specific strength training. Before the emergence of Babe Ruth, hit and run plays, sacrifice flies, bunts, and stolen bases ruled the game of baseball.

Baseball strength training was of major importance for the game. Keep in mind this was a day and age when you could turn that chopper to the second basemen into a single with the utilization of speed. Why? During this time the technology had not evolved yet and baseball gloves did not make it as easy to field a play as in the game today. This gave runners with a good baseball strength training more opportunities of running it out for a single and it was evident around 1910 when batting averages were inflating around the league.

Players like Ty Cobb, even though not well liked by both players and fans because of his dirty play, was the epitome of a player with speed during this era. In consecutive years, Cobb's batting averages were .420 and .410, leaving the infamous "Shoeless" Joe Jackson with a .408 average as the only other player during the "dead ball" era to hit a .400 batting average or better besides Ty Cobb. Many fans loved the new thrust in hits due to the new structured baseballs each league was provided. Baseball training has taken a different shape too.

Of course, when the batters are happy, the pitchers are not, simply because their earned run averages skyrocketed as batting averages did at the same time. Discussions, such as scuffed balls and using the same ball for the majority of the game, was common in those days, which is partially why it is hard to determine who are the best players at each position. Different rules for different times continue leaving us to wonder what might have been had players of today played in the early 1900s or vice versa.

After scoring started declining again from 1914-1919, the game actually suffered the chance of falling into a tailspin as World War I, for the United States, brought many players to war. With the Influenza Epidemic, during that time, around the world caused great concern for the game and thus the "dead ball" era was gone. What once was a game full of baseball strength training attributes and great baseball instruction from coaches turned into a homerun love fest.

Within the next decade, the baseball world would dream about playing the game as Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Jimmie Foxx did hitting homeruns galore and becoming icons of the game. The baseball world got it right, turning the game into a scoring fest as the world fell apart around it. It makes you wonder where players like Babe Ruth would have ended up on the all time homerun list had he spent his entire career playing in between 1903 and 1919 when the "dead ball" era was king.

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