The Busher
A young baseball pitcher in the bush leagues is discovered by a big-league manager and given his chance in the major leagues.
A young baseball pitcher in the bush leagues is discovered by a big-league manager and given his chance in the major leagues.
Charles Ray
Ben Harding
Colleen Moore
Mazie Palmer
John Gilbert
Jim Blair (as Jack Gilbert)
Jay Morley
Billy Palmer
Otto Hoffman
Deacon Nasby
Louis Durham
(uncredited)
Margaret Livingston
(uncredited)
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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.
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