A children’s film that teaches proper baseball posture and knowledge to kids, based on the premise that a weak youth baseball team, “Kodomo Giants,” receives coaching from players of the Yomiuri Giants (Yomiuri Kogyo Co., Ltd. / Tokyo Yomiuri Giants). It was released in July 1976, following “Tsutomu-kun from the Yamaguchi Family”, as a non-TV-affiliated short live-action film in the “Toei Manga Festival,” and became the only sports film of its kind in the series.
Shigeo Nagashima
Himself
Sadaharu Oh
Himself
Nobuyoshi Morita
Yuichi
Kimitaka Ôizumi
Yuichi's tutor
Keiko Itō
Yuichi's mother
A children’s film that teaches proper baseball posture and knowledge to kids, based on the premise that a weak youth baseball team, “Kodomo Giants,” receives coaching from players of the Yomiuri Giants (Yomiuri Kogyo Co., Ltd. / Tokyo Yomiuri Giants). It was released in July 1976, following “Tsutomu-kun from the Yamaguchi Family”, as a non-TV-affiliated short live-action film in the “Toei Manga Festival,” and became the only sports film of its kind in the series.
After dedicating the season to a teammate’s ailing father, a group of underestimated Ft. Worth youth baseball players takes its Cinderella run all the way to the 2002 Little League World Series—culminating in a record-breaking showdown that became an instant ESPN classic.
Jack Elliot, a one-time MVP for the New York Yankees is now on the down side of his baseball career. With a falling batting average, does he have one good year left and can the manager of the Chunichi Dragons, a Japanese Central baseball league find it in him?
Based on a true story, a group of boys from Monterrey, Mexico who become the first non-U.S. team to win the Little League World Series.
Kuroko reunites with the "Generation of Miracles" when former rivals are humiliated in an exhibition game against a notorious street basketball team.
Goofy shows us the national pastime. After a brief overview, we have a demonstration of the many possible pitches. On to the World Series, where we go through an eventful inning, culminating in a baseball that disintegrates when being hit.
A decade has passed in the small town where the original Sandlot gang banded together during the summer of ’62 to play baseball and battle the Beast. Now, back at the dugout, nine new kids descend on the diamond only to discover that a descendant of the Beast lives in Mr. Mertle’s backyard – a monster of mythical proportions known as 'The Great Fear'.
After accepting an invitation from a mysterious trainer, Ash, Misty and Brock meet Mewtwo, an artificially created Pokémon who wants to do battle.
Brothers Keiji and Ryoichi move to a new neighborhood in the Tokyo suburbs after their father, an office clerk, is promoted. The boys join the local gang as lowly new kids and emerge as natural leaders after defeating a bully. While visiting the home of their father's boss, the brothers witness the ridicule their father endures to please his superior. Angry and embarrassed, the boys find their naive ideas about power being challenged.
Promotional video celebrating 20 years of the Naruto animation project.
Morris Buttermaker is a burned-out minor league baseball player who loves to drink and can't keep his hands to himself. His long-suffering lawyer arranges for him to manage a local Little League team, and Buttermaker soon finds himself the head of a rag-tag group of misfit players. Through unconventional team-building exercises and his offbeat coaching style, Buttermaker helps his hapless Bears prepare to meet their rivals, the Yankees.