The Rookie

Sweet and languid, this film tells the true story of high-school baseball coach Jimmy Morris and his life-long love of the game. We first meet Jimmy when he's a determined young boy (Trevor Morgan) with one helluva fastball, hoping to stay in one town long enough to finish a season while his distant father (Brian Cox), a career military man, is frequently reassigned. Landing in Texas, the nucleus of America's football obsession, young Jimmy learns there's no room for baseball in the Lone Star State. Twenty years later, the grown-up Jimmy (Dennis Quaid) is a man whose major league dream was cut short by a shoulder injury, coaching high-school ball in the same small Te...