this come of age and romance and baseball story have every smaltzy and sentimental and semi mental and feel bad and feel good cliche that ever grace a 50 big studio or disney flick . there isn not one original scene and situation and or piece of dialogue in the whole movie . to make it bad and every point make on the screen be hammer home immediately afterward by have a character tell u what we just saw . the acting be nearly as bad a the screenplay . how be 104 minute of unlikeable character whine and cry and and refuse to act with any intelligence suppose to entertain or enlighten u . i think they do not make them like this any more while unfortunately and sometimes they still do . if the natural be a home run into the light tower and then the road home be a dribbler to first base .