i be 9 go it be release and i still have more emotional attachment to it than any other movie of childhood and even over rocky or star war . we have a second run theater nearby where you could see film for a dollar or 50 cent before 2 oclock and so i know i saw it at least a dozen time ( it play at the theater for about 3 month ) . my father coach little league for year for my old brother and myself . both be now decease and i finally take a view at the dvd this week after not have see it in more than 2 decade . to call it memory evoke be an understatement . dad be neither a buttermaker or a turner a a coach . he would come right from work to the field and would be knock out ball for field practice with his dress pant and florshiem shoe and and always puff that pipe fill with middelton cherry blend tobacco . we win our share of game and he always make it a priority that everyone play and and that the game be first and foremost and fun . we have our share of turner in our league and and dad dislike those type to no end . i do not know how many time later in life when meeting someone and they hear my last name and they would ask do your dad coach little league . i have him one year a a kid and he be such a cool guy to play for . dad think that bear be a bit over the top with the drinking and language and but always admit that give him more laugh than any movie he have see . i never saw any of bear sequel and the tv show and or the 2005 remake . there be just no point . without matthau and oneal and or morrow and i be sure they be as substandard a can be . bear really push the envelope for it time and forever shatter the disneyesque mode of kid film . what be inappropriate for 1976 be now intolerable and and deservedly so . but it be those attribute that make the film so unique . i think the character that stand out the most for me be roy turner and have be the son of a coach dad . i always leave the theater love dad even more for not be like him . turner give u a look at what i call lombardi isim . vic morrow be such a great actor . it be hard see him play a villain character when i always think of him a the heroic sgt . saunders of combat . when the championship game be over and the yankee win and i picture that huge trophy sit in an apartment year later and collect dust and be just about as worthless a the wood and plastic it make of . still in the possession of a bitter old lonely man wonder what happen with his family . some time back and i spend a lazy sunday just drive around and come across a league game of 13 14 year old . i felt compel to stop and watch a few inning . oh how thing have change . the game chatter have be replace with vulgar trash talk . i saw a verbal exchange between a pitcher and hitter that lead to a head hunt pitch . nothing be do about it and and on the next pitch the batter take one to the helmet . the batter end up be ok ( i guess helmet technology have come a long way thank goodness ) and and the pitcher be eject . i leave the game feel pretty disgust and and for a brief moment i ask myself where be roy turner when you need him .