THE ROOKIE (2002)
Marriage, kids, and a mortgage have a rude way of chasing away your childhood dreams, but former pitcher Jim Morris (Dennis Quaid), whose once promising minor-league career was curtailed by an arm injury, is the rare man granted a second chance. Inspired by his high school students and armed with an inexplicable 98-mph fastball, the science teacher from Texas finds himself on the mound for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, striking out players almost half his age.
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