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Hardball

  • TV Series
  • 1994
  • 30m
IMDb RATING
6.0/10
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Alexandra Wentworth, Chris Browning, Dann Florek, Bruce Greenwood, Adam Hendershott, Steve Hytner, Phill Lewis, Rose Marie, Joe Rogan, Mike Starr, and Sholom Gelt in Hardball (1994)
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The Pioneers is a baseball team that struggles to stay out of last place, annoying crusty owner Mitzi . Happy is the team manager which includes new pitcher Dave, egotistical Frank, and Arno... Read allThe Pioneers is a baseball team that struggles to stay out of last place, annoying crusty owner Mitzi . Happy is the team manager which includes new pitcher Dave, egotistical Frank, and Arnold, the debonair 2nd baseman.The Pioneers is a baseball team that struggles to stay out of last place, annoying crusty owner Mitzi . Happy is the team manager which includes new pitcher Dave, egotistical Frank, and Arnold, the debonair 2nd baseman.

  • Creators
    • Kevin Curran
    • Jeff Martin
  • Stars
    • Bruce Greenwood
    • Neal Boushell
    • Mike Starr
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.0/10
    100
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    • Creators
      • Kevin Curran
      • Jeff Martin
    • Stars
      • Bruce Greenwood
      • Neal Boushell
      • Mike Starr
    • 7User reviews
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    Bruce Greenwood
    Bruce Greenwood
    • Dave Logan
    • 1994
    Neal Boushell
    • Hardball
    • 1994
    Mike Starr
    Mike Starr
    • Mike Widmer
    • 1994
    Alexandra Wentworth
    Alexandra Wentworth
    • Lee Emory
    • 1994
    Dann Florek
    Dann Florek
    • Ernest 'Happy' Talbot
    • 1994
    Joe Rogan
    Joe Rogan
    • Frank Valente
    • 1994
    Phill Lewis
    Phill Lewis
    • Arnold Nixon
    • 1994
    Steve Hytner
    Steve Hytner
    • Brad Coolidge
    • 1994
    Chris Browning
    Chris Browning
    • Lloyd LaCombe
    • 1994
    Rose Marie
    Rose Marie
    • Mitzi Balzer
    • 1994
    Dave Sebastian Williams
    Dave Sebastian Williams
    • Announcer…
    • 1994
    Christopher Darga
    Christopher Darga
    • Reporter…
    • 1994
    Frank Medrano
    Frank Medrano
    • Heckler
    • 1994
    Justin Berfield
    Justin Berfield
    • Kid
    • 1994
    Christopher B. Duncan
    Christopher B. Duncan
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    • 1994
    Jennifer Nash
    Jennifer Nash
    • Cindy…
    • 1994
    Paul Eisenhauer
    • Umpire
    • 1994
    Philip Wayne
    • Fan Guy
    • 1994
    • Creators
      • Kevin Curran
      • Jeff Martin
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    jsexton-2

    Is this the one with the angry mascot?

    I remember watching the first episode of this series and finding it hilarious. It had something to do with a new team mascot who turned out to be a very unhappy guy in a baseball head. The other episodes were not nearly so inspired and the series probably deserved its short run.
    8MJD86

    Baseball Sitcom with a Fox Attitude

    A couple weeks ago, Baseball's Not Dead posted the 7 aired episodes on YouTube. I had been wanting to watch this series since about'05 when I got to IMDb. I was around in 94 and would have watched "Hardball" if I was aware it existed. A huge thank you to baseballsnotdead

    This show was pretty good. I'm actually hooked on it I'm about to watch it around again for the 3rd time in just a few weeks.

    In my opinion "Frank Buys an Island, Mike Pays the Price" is the best episode of the series. I would be very interested in seeing the two unaired episodes of the series.

    If you love Married With Children and you love baseball this the perfect show for you.
    5Rontrigger

    I remember the pilot being funny...

    In the pilot of this show, Coach Mike Widmer (played by Mike Starr) was openly gay. Note the "memorable quote" from this character in that section; there was another one in the pilot that I remember--Mike was very unhappy about something and someone gently suggested that perhaps he ought to get out of baseball. Mike then said: "And give up showering with men? Never!" O.K., it was over the top, but I think this was a "premise with promise." The coach of a baseball team, with an undeniably masculine persona, apparently accepted as homosexual without question by his players--it seemed almost revolutionary to me in 1994. And overall, I recall that the show had some good laughs. So I looked forward to the first regular episode.

    Well, this was a prime example of just how much things can change between the pilot and that first regular episode. Whatever laughs were to be had in the pilot were clearly not there now, and--unbelievably--there was a comment to the previously gay coach about his wife and kids! The suits at the network obviously had stepped in and put a stop to one innovation that had certainly clicked with me. I seem to recall that I didn't even finish watching the show that night.

    Why any network would even air the pilot at all, let alone as the first broadcast of the series and only a week before the first regular episode, when they had revamped the show so completely, is beyond me.
    richard.fuller1

    Forgettable and Forgotten

    A promo had Joe Rogan (Valente) muttering under his breath for the tough talking Rose Marie to 'shove it'.

    "What did you say, Valente?" "I said I love it." Then he goes into this high squeal. "I love it! MUAH!" He was supposed to be the breakout pretty face in the show. Girls would watch it because he was so cute.

    I do recall the mascot who was supposed to be so bad and that made him cool. (!!) He would appear at the end of the first episode to a heavy metal guitar bit, much like wrestlers do now on the WWE and Raw (whatever), and it was supposed to be sensational, like when Norm returned on Cheers one season.

    Hardball, by the way, was the mascot's name as well. I guess he was supposed to be as mean and likable as this Stewie is now on "Family Guy." Fox went through this period where shows would have 'ball' in their name somewhere.

    There would be an equally short lived medical show called Medicine Ball as well.
    7joepharmasst

    Too bad this series didn't last

    I remember this series as enormously funny and still recall Joe Rogan in it. I'd like to see them again

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    • Trivia
      Booking this sitcom is the reason comedian Joe Rogan moved to LA from the East Coast.
    • Quotes

      Frank Valente: Psycho chicks are the best!

    • Connections
      Referenced in The Joe Rogan Experience: Justin Martindale (2020)

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    • Release date
      • September 4, 1994 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Bullpen
    • Production companies
      • Interbang Inc.
      • Magic Beans
      • Touchstone Television
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    • Runtime
      • 30m
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Stereo
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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