Major League
The new owner of the Cleveland Indians puts together a purposely horrible team so they'll lose and she can move the team. But when the plot is uncovered, they start winning just to spite her. Rachel P…
Major League
The new owner of the Cleveland Indians puts together a purposely horrible team so they'll lose and she can move the team. But when the plot is uncovered, they start winning just to spite her. Rachel Phelps is the new owner of the Cleveland Indians baseball team. However, she has nefarious plans: She wants to move the team to Miami for the warmer climate and a new stadium. To justify the move, the team must lose--and lose badly. So she assembles the worst possible team. Among these are a past-his-prime catcher with bad knees, a shrewd but past-his-prime pitcher, a young tearaway pitcher--and felon--with a 100-mph fastball but absolutely no control, a third-baseman who is too wealthy and precious to dive, a voodoo-loving slugger who can't hit a curve ball, and an energetic-but-naive lead-off hitter and base-stealer who can't keep the ball on the ground. Against the odds, and after the inevitable initial failures, they iron out some of their faults and--much to Ms. Phelps' consternation--start to win. —grantss An exotic dancer marries the owner of a baseball club. He does not survive the honeymoon and she is in control of his ball club. She wants to move to a warmer climate where some new stadiums have been built, but her lease has only one escape clause: poor attendance. She fields the worst team she can find. The owner's attitude gives the misfits and losers something to rally around, and they fight back. —John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net> The Cleveland Indians have gone 34 years without a division title. Team owner Donald Phelps has died, and his snobby wife Rachel Phelps, a former showgirl, has taken over as the new owner. Some in the media think that Rachel shouldn't be the owner of a baseball team. Rachel hates Cleveland, so she makes plans to move the Indians to the warmer climate of Miami, Florida, but she can't break the team's lease with Cleveland unless the team's attendance for the season is below 800,000. Rachel's plan is to put together a team so awful that the season attendance will be lower than 800,000. Rachel and general manager Charlie Donovan hire a manager for the Indians, Lou Brown, who has been the manager of the minor-league Toledo Mud Hens for the past 30 years. Charlie then recruits some misfit players: catcher Jake Taylor, a major league standout with knee problems; Rick "Wild Thing" Vaughn, a pitcher who throws wildly; third-baseman Roger Dorn, a product endorser and former major-league star who will do anything to avoid injury; outfielder Willie Mays Hayes, who runs fast enough to steal a lot of bases but can't hit very well, and Pedro Cerrano, an outfielder who practices voodoo. As expected, the Indians get off to a slow start, but when they discover that Rachel wants the team to lose so she can relocate them, the Indians get their act together and start winning games and raising their attendance, as Jake tries to win back his ex-girlfriend Lynn Wells, and the Indians do what they can to win the division title. —Todd Baldridge The new owner of the Cleveland Indians threatens to move the team unless they deliver immediate results. She then fills the roster with has-beens and never-will-bes to guarantee their failure. But the team miraculously rallies together and starts to win. —jgp3553@yahoo.com
Major League
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The new owner of the Cleveland Indians puts together a purposely horrible team so they'll lose and she can move the team. But when the plot is uncovered, they start winning just to spite her. Rachel Phelps is the new owner of the Cleveland Indians baseball team.
However, she has nefarious plans: She wants to move the team to Miami for the warmer climate and a new stadium. To justify the move, the team must lose--and lose badly. So she assembles the worst possible team.
Among these are a past-his-prime catcher with bad knees, a shrewd but past-his-prime pitcher, a young tearaway pitcher--and felon--with a 100-mph fastball but absolutely no control, a third-baseman who is too wealthy and precious to dive, a voodoo-loving slugger who can't hit a curve ball, and an energetic-but-naive lead-off hitter and base-stealer who can't keep the ball on the ground. Against the odds, and after the inevitable initial failures, they iron out some of their faults and--much to Ms. Phelps' consternation--start to win.
—grantss An exotic dancer marries the owner of a baseball club. He does not survive the honeymoon and she is in control of his ball club. She wants to move to a warmer climate where some new stadiums have been built, but her lease has only one escape clause: poor attendance.
She fields the worst team she can find. The owner's attitude gives the misfits and losers something to rally around, and they fight back. —John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net> The Cleveland Indians have gone 34 years without a division title.
Team owner Donald Phelps has died, and his snobby wife Rachel Phelps, a former showgirl, has taken over as the new owner. Some in the media think that Rachel shouldn't be the owner of a baseball team. Rachel hates Cleveland, so she makes plans to move the Indians to the warmer climate of Miami, Florida, but she can't break the team's lease with Cleveland unless the team's attendance for the season is below 800,000.
Rachel's plan is to put together a team so awful that the season attendance will be lower than 800,000. Rachel and general manager Charlie Donovan hire a manager for the Indians, Lou Brown, who has been the manager of the minor-league Toledo Mud Hens for the past 30 years. Charlie then recruits some misfit players: catcher Jake Taylor, a major league standout with knee problems; Rick "Wild Thing" Vaughn, a pitcher who throws wildly; third-baseman Roger Dorn, a product endorser and former major-league star who will do anything to avoid injury; outfielder Willie Mays Hayes, who runs fast enough to steal a lot of bases but can't hit very well, and Pedro Cerrano, an outfielder who practices voodoo.
As expected, the Indians get off to a slow start, but when they discover that Rachel wants the team to lose so she can relocate them, the Indians get their act together and start winning games and raising their attendance, as Jake tries to win back his ex-girlfriend Lynn Wells, and the Indians do what they can to win the division title. —Todd Baldridge The new owner of the Cleveland Indians threatens to move the team unless they deliver immediate results. She then fills the roster with has-beens and never-will-bes to guarantee their failure.
But the team miraculously rallies together and starts to win. —jgp3553@yahoo.com.