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My son has reached an age where he loves sports and has outgrown Pixar movies, so I have been introducing him to the slate of 90s-era kids sports movies. There were a ton of these kind of movies from about 1990 to 2000 and then they kind of stopped for some reason, although you can still find a few direct-to-video features these days like The Perfect Game, A Mile in His Shoes, and the Kirk Cameron film Mercy Rule.

These forays into baseball films are a real treat for me, since I missed some of these films (see kids, back in the day you had to go all the way to a theater or your local video rental store to see a film) or completely mis-remembered what happened in these films (wait, a kid ran the Minnesota Twins?