TY - ADVS AU - Gray,Gordon AU - Ciardi,Mark AU - Hancock,John Lee AU - Rich,Mike AU - Quaid,Dennis AU - Griffiths,Rachel AU - Hernandez,Jay AU - Cox,Brian ED - Walt Disney Pictures. ED - Gran Via Productions TI - The rookie PY - 2002///?] CY - [United States] PB - Walt Disney Home Entertainment, Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment KW - Baseball KW - Drama KW - Baseball coaches KW - Feature films KW - lcgft N1 - Videodisc release of the 2002 motion picture; Special features: Audio commentary by Dennis Quaid and director John Lee Hancock ; "The inspirational story of Jim Morris" ; Spring training: tips from the pros ; deleted scenes introduced by the director; Originally released as part of a Blu-ray + DVD combo pack; Cinematography, John Schwartzman ; editor, Eric L. Beason ; music, Carter Burwell; Dennis Quaid, Rachel Griffiths, Jay Hernandez, Beth Grant, Angus T. Jones, Brian Cox, Rick Gonzalez, Chad Lindberg, Angelo Spizzirri N2 - When a shoulder injury ended his minor league pitching career twelve years ago, Jim Morris resorted to the next best thing: coaching. But Jim's team, knowing their coach is a great ball player, makes a deal with him: if they win the district championship, they want Jim to try out for a major-league organization. Going from worst to first, the team makes it to state, and Jim is forced to live up to his end of the deal. While there prove to be a lot of pitches to be thrown before he makes it off the mound, big-league dreams are revived, and there's no telling where he could go ER -