Mr. Baseball is a 1992 American film that starred Tom Selleck and was directed by Fred Schepisi. Jack Elliot is an aging American baseball player put on the trading block by the New York Yankees in favor of a rookie first-baseman , and there's only one taker: the Nagoya Chunichi Dragons of Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. Right away, the arrogant Elliot clashes with the Japanese culture and he soon alienates his new teammates. He believes the rules and management style of his new skipper, Uchiyama , are ludicrous, and continues to do things his way, which leads his already dwindling... performance to suffer more. His only ally on the team is another American ballplayer, Max "Hammer" Dubois , but even he's fed up with Jack's attitude and lack of respect for the game and his team. At the same time, Elliot develops a relationship with the beautiful Hiroko , who is, he later finds out, Uchiyama's daughter. After one too many outbursts, including punching out his interpreter , Elliot is suspended.
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| Release date: | October 2, 1992 |
| Directed by: | Fred Schepisi |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 108 Minutes |
| Producer: | Fred Schepisi, Doug Claybourne |
| Music by: | Jerry Goldsmith |
| Screenplay by: | Theo Pelletier, John Junkerman, Gary Ross, Monte Merrick, Kevin Wade |
| Genre: | Comedy |