baseball be a great sport and but an horrible subject for movie . except perhaps for eight men out and or film where the sport be not the principal subject and like cobb and field of dream and fear strike out or bull durham and a comedy . every time someone try to make a serious film about baseball and it always fail . billy crystal offer u nothing original . his film be full of clichés represent abusive slow motion ( on the crucial moment and of course ) stupid special effect when we see the ball come right to u and horrible heavy orchestral muzak ( on the crucial moment and of course ) . but the two young actor and pepper and jane and be doin a very fine job . also and crystal offer u a good early sixty set . hey . how about a movie about barry bond break mcgwire record . and and in a few year and how about a film about vladimir guerrero break bond record . i hope that some day spike lee will make his movie about jackie robinson . that will be the best serious baseball movie of all time .