Shows tagged: BASEBALL

The History of the Seattle Mariners

6 Episode s . Every team has its highs and lows, frustration, heartbreak, greatness and confusion, but no other team is like this one. The Seattle Mariners are eminently lovable, profoundly human and stunningly, outrageously weird. There is no more fascinating team across the entire history of American sports.

Home Run Derby

27 Episode s . Baseball's greatest hitters slug it out in a champ-against-champ duel on a match play basis.

Bay City Blues

8 Episode s . Bay City Blues is an American comedy-drama series that aired on NBC from October 1983 to November 1983. The series stars Michael Nouri, Dennis Franz, and Pat Corley, and was created and produced by Steven Bochco. Eight episodes were produced, but only four were aired prior to its cancellation.

Game 7

5 Episode s . Bringing together the two greatest words in the world of sports to life, this anthology series highlights the most memorable win or go home games in sports history.

MLB's 20 Greatest Games

20 Episode s . MLB Network counts down its version of the 20 greatest games played since about 1950. The network first came up with 50 games and a "blue ribbon panel" -- aided by fan votes -- whittled that to 20. Hosts Bob Costas and Tom Verducci dissect each game, and given the format, with each episode running at least one hour, there's plenty of time to delve into nuances such as pitch selection, defensive alignment, managerial moves and so on. Also making each episode must-see TV for longtime baseball fans is the ex-players and managers who join Costas and Verducci to provide insight. Bucky Dent, for example, talks about his famous home run in the 1978 American League tiebreak game, and Johnny Bench and Fred Lynn reminisce about Game 6 of the 1975 World Series, the No. 1 game on the list.

The Next Knuckler

4 Episode s . Former college quarterbacks try to learn the knuckleball while competing for a spring-training spot with the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Ball Four

7 Episode s . Ball Four is a 1976 American situation comedy that aired on CBS in 1976. The series is inspired by the 1970 book of the same name by Jim Bouton. Bouton co-created the show with humorist and television critic Marvin Kitman and sportswriter Vic Ziegel. Bouton also starred in the series. Ball Four followed the Washington Americans, a fictitious minor league baseball team, dealing with the fallout from a series of Sports Illustrated articles written by Americans player Jim Barton. Like the book, the series covered controversial subjects including womanizing players, drug use, homosexuality in sports and religion. The series included a gay rookie ballplayer, one of the earliest regular gay characters on television. The trio began developing the series in 1975, looking to other series like M*A*S*H and All in the Family as models. CBS expressed interest and the creative team developed a script. CBS shot the pilot episode and ultimately bought the series. Ball Four aired at 8:30 PM Eastern time, which was during the Family Viewing Hour, an FCC-mandated hour of early evening "family-friendly" broadcasting. Consequently the writers had some trouble with the network's Standards and Practices in their attempt to portray realistic locker room scenes, especially the language used by the players. Pseudo-profanity such as "bullpimp" was disallowed, while "horse-crock" and "bullhorse" were approved.

The Comeback: 2004 Boston Red Sox

3 Episode s . This definitive docuseries chronicles the Red Sox's journey to their first World Series title in 86 years via interviews with star players and personnel.

Captain Ahab: The Story of Dave Stieb

4 Episode s . “Who’s Dave Stieb?” you might be asking. Well, this is a guy who had never stepped on a pitcher’s mound in his life until age 20. Just four years later, he was the best pitcher in the American League. This is the almost unbelievable story of the man who put the Toronto Blue Jays on the map.

The Sounds of Baseball

12 Episode s . MLB Network showcases the greatest calls and moments from iconic Major League Baseball play-by-play broadcasters.

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Team Astro

18 Episode s . A young boy, J. Shuro, meets the legendary pitcher Eiji Sawamura in the Philippines during World War II. Sawamura shares his dreams of one day gathering the nine Astro Superhumans – who all were born nine minutes and nine seconds past nine on September 9th of the 29th year of Showa (1954) and all have baseball-shaped birthmarks on their bodies – to form the ultimate baseball team capable of beating the Yomiuri Giants and any U.S. Major League team. When Sawamura dies during the war, Shuro decides to help fulfill his idol’s dream and goes in search of the nine ball players. But the team that is formed does not play ordinary ball. These extraordinary players demonstrate extraordinary plays on the field and some will not stop until everything – even their lives – is left on the field.

Major: World Series

2 Episode s . According to Weekly Shonen Sunday, a new OVA of manga "Major" was announced to be released in December. The World Series chapter, which was skipped in the TV series, will be animated. This OVA will be the final anime of Major.

The Import Player's Entry!! The Animation

2 Episode s . Sandy Bash is the ace of her baseball team. But there’s a very simple reason for that: she never wears more than a skimpy bikini during the games in order to distract her opponents that way; her “distraction manoeuvres” have already enabled her team to bring home several victories. But today’s opponent, Wendy Crawford, is also an eye-candy, wearing nothing more than a few scraps of cloth. Confident of victory, the young lady makes a bet with Ryuuji, the pitcher of the opposing team: if he manages an out against her, she will give him her virginity. However, she didn’t reckon on Sandy taking his place … and winning … and claiming her reward?!

MLB石橋貴明スタジアム

3 Episode s .