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Released
1992 · FILM

Mr. Baseball

A washed-up baseball star must rediscover his passion and prove he still has what it takes when he's sent to coach a struggling team in Japan's Central League.

He's the biggest thing to hit Japan since Godzilla!

Directed by
Runtime
108 min
ComedyRomanceSport

Synopsis

Jack Elliot, a former MVP with the New York Yankees, is now in the declining phase of his baseball career. As his batting average continues to drop, questions remain about whether he has one strong season left in him—and whether the manager of the Chunichi Dragons, a team in Japan's Central League, can bring it out of him.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 22

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Peter HonessShot by Ian BakerScored by Jerry GoldsmithDesigned by Ted Haworth

Box Office

1992 · Box office

Grossed $20.0M worldwide

Worldwide gross

$20.0M

Worldwide gross$20.0M

Opening weekend: $5.2M 25% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $6.5M31% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,855 theaters

Also known as

  • Mr. Baseballde
  • Campione per forzait

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