a a baseball die hard and this movie go contrary to what i expect in a sport movie represent authentic look sport action and believable character and and an original story line . while angel in the outfield fail miserably in the first category and it succeed beautifully in the latter two . angel weave the story of roger and j. p. and two anaheim foster kid in love with baseball but search for a family and with that of the woebegone angel franchise and struggle to draw fan and win game . push by his deadbeat father promise that they would be a family only when the angel win the pennant and roger asks for some heavenly help and and get it in the form of diamond dwell spirit bent on reverse the franchise downward spiral . and and when short fuse manager george knox ( portray by danny glover ) begin believe in what roger see and the team suddenly have hope for turn their season around and roger and j. p. find something to believe in . glover in particular give a nice performance and and tony danza and play a wash up pitcher and also do well and despite clearly have zero idea of how to pitch out of the windup .