The Rookie (2002)

"Sometimes dreams come back to life"
Audience Score
68
The Rookie
Jim Morris never made it out of the minor leagues before a shoulder injury ended his pitching career twelve years ago Now a marriedwithchildren highschool chemistry teacher and baseball coach in Texas Jims team makes a deal with him if they win the district championship Jim will try out with a majorleague 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 tryout fielduntil he gets onto the mound where he confounds the scouts and himself by clocking successive 98 mph fastballs good enough for a minorleague contract with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays Jims still got a lot of pitches to throw before he makes it to The Show but with his bigleague dreams revived theres no telling where he could go
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Movie Details

Theatrical Release:March 25th, 2002
On DVD & Blu-ray:August 27th, 2002 - Buy DVD
Movie Budget:$20,000,000
Movie Box Office Gross:$75,597,042 (Worldwide)
Original Language:English
Executive Producers:Philip Steuer
Production Companies:Walt Disney Pictures Gran Via Productions 98 MPH Productions
Movie Tags:baseball