The Rookie
Jim Morris never made it out of the minor leagues before a shoulder injury ended his pitching career twelve years ago. Now a married-with-children high-school chemistry teacher and baseball coach in Texas, Jim's team makes a deal with him: if they win the district championship, Jim will try out with a major-league organization. The bet proves incentive enough for the team, and they go from worst to first, making it to state for the first time in the history of the school. Jim, forced to live up to his end of the deal, is nearly laughed off the try-out field--until he gets onto the mound, where he confounds the scouts (and himself) by clocking successive 98 mph fastballs, good enough for a minor-league contract with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Jim's still got a lot of pitches to throw before he makes it to The Show, but with his big-league dreams revived, there's no telling where he could go.
Casts
Dennis Quaid
Rachel Griffiths
Jay Hernandez
Beth Grant
Angus T. Jones
Brian Cox
Rick Gonzalez
Chad Lindberg
Angelo Spizzirri
Royce D. Applegate
Russell Richardson
Raynor Scheine
Chris Sheffield
Brandon Smith
Trevor Morgan
David Blackwell
Blue Deckert
Danny Kamin
Rebecca Spicher
Raymond Rivera
Marco Sanchez
Cynthia Dorn
Robert Lewis
Seth Spiker
Beau Holden
Cam Banfield
Barbie Burke
Carlos A. Gonzalez
Kyle Scott Jackson
Bert Beatson
Anthony Moore
Brian Shoop
Mark Ciardi
Willie Dirden
Chuck Morgan
Eric Nadel
Richard Dillard
James Fletcher
John Wayne Shafer
Charles Sanders
Randall Wallace
Tim Jackson
John Williams
Jim Morris
J.D. Evermore
Mark Robert Ellis
Julio Cesar Cedillo
Lindsay Cady
Deborah Abbott
Patty Allieri
Johnny Bartee
Jason Bohn
Fred Bothwell
Matthew Brown
Royce Clayton
Peter Cornwell
Rhett Ashley Crosby
Lisa Del Dotto
Gareth B. DePutron
Mark Falvo
Archie Fields
Charles Gibson
Ryan Hancock
Jade Hanley
John C. Hogwood
Michael S. Koenig
Nora J. Moore
Dan Murphy
Ray L. Perez
Jess Price
George Renteria
Robert Rosado
Bobby Shue
Brent Smiga
Gary Teague
Aaron Wells
Christine Wolf
