The Rookie
- Released on
- Runtime
- 127 mins
Jim Morris never made it out of the minor leagues before a shoulder injury ended his pitching career twelve years ago. Now a married-with-children high-school chemistry teacher and baseball coach in Texas, Jim's team makes a deal with him: if they win the district championship, Jim will try out with a major-league organization. The bet proves incentive enough for the team, and they go from worst to first, making it to state for the first time in the history of the school. Jim, forced to live up to his end of the deal, is nearly laughed off the try-out field--until he gets onto the mound, where he confounds the scouts (and himself) by clocking successive 98 mph fastballs, good enough for a minor-league contract with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Jim's still got a lot of pitches to throw before he makes it to The Show, but with his big-league dreams revived, there's no telling where he could go.
Jim Morris never made it out of the minor leagues before a shoulder injury ended his pitching career twelve years ago. Now a married-with-children high-school chemistry teacher and baseball coach in Texas, Jim's team makes a deal with him: if they win the district championship, Jim will try out with a major-league organization. The bet proves incentive enough for the team, and they go from worst to first, making it to state for the first time in the history of the school. Jim, forced to live up to his end of the deal, is nearly laughed off the try-out field--until he gets onto the mound, where he confounds the scouts (and himself) by clocking successive 98 mph fastballs, good enough for a minor-league contract with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Jim's still got a lot of pitches to throw before he makes it to The Show, but with his big-league dreams revived, there's no telling where he could go.
Cast
- Dennis Quaid
- Rachel Griffiths
- Jay Hernandez
- Beth Grant
- Angus T. Jones
- Brian Cox
- Rick Gonzalez
- Chad Lindberg
- Angelo Spizzirri
- Royce D. Applegate
- Russell Richardson
- Raynor Scheine
- Chris Sheffield
- Brandon Smith
- Trevor Morgan
- David Blackwell
- Blue Deckert
- Danny Kamin
- Rebecca Spicher
- Raymond Rivera
- Marco Sanchez
- Cynthia Dorn
- Robert Lewis
- Seth Spiker
- Beau Holden
- Cam Banfield
- Barbie Burke
- Carlos A. Gonzalez
- Kyle Scott Jackson
- Bert Beatson
- Anthony Moore
- Brian Shoop
- Mark Ciardi
- Willie Dirden
- Chuck Morgan
- Eric Nadel
- Richard Dillard
- James Fletcher
- John Wayne Shafer
- Charles Sanders
- Randall Wallace
- Tim Jackson
- John Williams
- Jim Morris
- J.D. Evermore
- Mark Robert Ellis
- Julio Cesar Cedillo
- Lindsay Cady
- Deborah Abbott
- Patty Allieri
- Johnny Bartee
- Jason Bohn
- Fred Bothwell
- Matthew Brown
- Royce Clayton
- Peter Cornwell
- Rhett Ashley Crosby
- Lisa Del Dotto
- Gareth B. DePutron
- Mark Falvo
- Archie Fields
- Charles Gibson
- Ryan Hancock
- Jade Hanley
- John C. Hogwood
- Michael S. Koenig
- Nora J. Moore
- Dan Murphy
- Ray L. Perez
- Jess Price
- George Renteria
- Robert Rosado
- Bobby Shue
- Brent Smiga
- Gary Teague
- Aaron Wells
- Christine Wolf
Director
- John Lee Hancock
Producers
- Gordon Gray
- Mark Ciardi
- Mark Johnson
