Mr. Baseball
“He's the biggest thing to hit Japan since Godzilla!”
Jack Elliot, a one-time MVP for the New York Yankees is now on the down side of his baseball career. With a falling batting average, does he have one good year left and can the manager of the Chunichi Dragons, a Japanese Central baseball league find it in him?
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Cast
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Tom Selleck
Jack Elliot
Known for
Blue Bloods
3 Men and a Baby
Ken Takakura
Uchiyama
Known for
Black Rain
The Yakuza
Aya Takanashi
Hiroko Uchiyama
Also in
Wangan Midnight Final: GTR Densetsu ACT 2
Toshi Shioya
Yoji Nishimura
Also in
Oshin
Another Heaven
Dennis Haysbert
Max 'Hammer' Dubois
Known for
24
Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord
Art LaFleur
Skip
Known for
Cobra
Death Warrant
Nicholas Cascone
Doc
Known for
Titanic
Eye for an Eye
Larry Pennell
Howie Gold
Known for
Firefly
Bubba Ho-tep
Toshizo Fujiwara
Ryoh Mukai
Known for
A Scene at the Sea
Kosuke Toyohara
Toshi Yamashita
Known for
Tokyo Vice
Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah
Mak Takano
Shinji Igarashi
Known for
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III
Naoki Fuji
Takuya Nishikawa
Also in
3 Ninjas Kick Back
Ghost Soup
Fred Schepisi Director · Kevin Wade Screenplay Monte Merrick Screenplay
Director
Fred Schepisi
Screenplay
Kevin Wade
Screenplay
Monte Merrick
Screenplay
Gary Ross
Writer
Jeffrey Price
Writer
Peter S. Seaman
Story
John Junkerman
Story
Theo Pelletier
Composer
Jerry Goldsmith
Cinematographer
Ian Baker
Editor
Peter Honess
Editor
Jeremy Gibbs
Editor
Gary Woodyard
Production designer
Ted Haworth
Costume designer
Bernadene Morgan
Costume designer
Bruce Finlayson
Worldwide gross $21M · Budget $40M · United States release October 2, 1992
Box office
Budget
$40,000,000
Worldwide gross
$20,883,446
Gross vs. budget
0.5×
Production
Universal Pictures
Production · Studio
Outlaw
Production
Pacific Artists
Production
United States · Japan
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English · Hungarian · Japanese · Spanish
Release dates
Germany · October 1, 1992
Theatrical
United States · October 2, 1992
Theatrical
Greece
December 15, 1992 · Theatrical
Japan
February 6, 1993 · Theatrical
United Kingdom
July 1, 1993 · Theatrical
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