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- The new owner of the Cleveland Indians puts together a purposely horrible team so they'll lose and she can move the team. But when the plot is uncovered, they start winning just to spite her.
- Taxi dancer Charity continues to have faith despite endless disappointments at its hands, and hope that she will finally meet the man to romance her away from her sleazy life. Maybe, just maybe, handsome Oscar will be the one to do it.
- After wishing to be made big, a teenage boy wakes the next morning to find himself mysteriously in the body of an adult.
- John McClane and a Harlem store owner are targeted by German terrorist Simon in New York City, where he plans to rob the Federal Reserve Building.
- Dave Buznik is a businessman who is wrongly sentenced to an anger management program, where he meets an aggressive instructor.
- Two corporate executive assistants hatch a plan to match-make their two bosses.
- The affair between a politician and a contemporary dancer is affected by mysterious forces keeping the lovers apart.
- A young boy is bequeathed the ownership of a professional baseball team.
- After 19 years of playing the game he's loved his whole life, Detroit Tigers pitcher Billy Chapel has to decide if he's going to risk everything and put everything out there.
- Contestants compete for a job as an apprentice to billionaire American Donald Trump.
- A nice guy has just moved to New York and discovers that he must share his run-down apartment with a couple thousand singing, dancing cockroaches.
- A rich businessman and a young woman are attracted to each other, but he only wants an affair while she wants to save herself for marriage.
- Jack Elliot, once a great baseball player, is forced to play in Japan where his brash, egotistical ways cause friction with his new teammates and friends.
- The story of the life and career of famed baseball player Lou Gehrig.
- The story of a baseball scout who discovers a talented but troubled baseball player.
- The story of the friendship between a worldly-wise star pitcher and a half-wit catcher as they cope with the catcher's terminal illness through a baseball season.
- While grappling with his wife's infidelity, an NYPD detective investigates the murder of a gay man, which he discovers is linked to official corruption involving sex and drugs.
- A scientist discovers a formula that makes a baseball which is repelled by wood. He promptly sets out to exploit his discovery.
- Hopelessly in love with a woman working at MGM Studios, a clumsy man attempts to become a motion-picture cameraman to be close to the object of his desire.
- A dedicated FBI agent recalls the agency's battles against the Klan, organized crime and Communist spies.
- An ex-football coach is hired by a small Catholic college to train its football team in the hopes of winning games and making money to save the school from bankruptcy.
- Harold "Speedy" Swift, a fan of Babe Ruth and the New York Yankees, saves from extinction the city's last horse-drawn trolley, operated by his girlfriend's grandfather.
- An unsophisticated stationmaster from provincial New Mexico fraudulently claims that he is dying in order to get an expense-paid dream tour of New York.
- William Bendix suits up in Yankee flannels as the renowned pitcher-turned-outfielder Babe Ruth in a sports biopic that mixes facts with fiction.
- Nebraska farmboy Grover Cleveland Alexander achieves baseball stardom before war injuries and alcoholism derail his career, but through his wife's faithful efforts he gets a chance for a comeback and redemption.
- The 1958 National Football League championship game between the Baltimore Colts and the New York Giants is known as "The Greatest Game Ever Played". It was the first (and only) professional football title game to ever result in an overtime, featured 17 men who were ultimately inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame and included wild swings of momentum and the Colts execution of their two-minute drill to tie the game in the closing seconds of regulation time. To commemorate the 50th anniversary, ESPN films paired eleven of the games participants with current players from the Indianapolis Colts and New York Giants to compare the nature of the sport 50 years later, as well as sportscasters, reporters, photographers, spectators, cheerleaders, majorettes and marching band members who contributed their reminiscences.
- Three boys face the challenges of growing up in the Bronx.
- This is a recap of the 2004 Boston Red Sox season that finished with them breaking a winless drought of 86 years by coming back against the New York Yankees and later sweeping the world series.
- When Jack and Jerry are not playing professional baseball with the Blue Sox, they are packing them in on the Vaudeville circuit. Jack is engaged to Mary, but a gold digger named Daisy has worked her way into his confidence. When Mary sees Jack and Daisy together, she leaves Jack and Jack marries Daisy the next day. When Daisy decides that she wants into the Vaudeville act, she has Jack dump both Jerry and his baseball contract. But Jack soon finds that - no act - means no money - means no Daisy.
- In 1918 the Boston Red Sox won their fifth World Series, thanks in great part to a young pitching and hitting sensation from the slums of Baltimore named George Herman Ruth, a.k.a. the Babe or the Bambino. A year later, after not advancing to the playoffs, Red Sox owner Harry Frazee sold the Babe to the New York Yankees. In turn, the Bronx Bombers went on to win an incredible 26 World Series title. Die-hard Red Sox fans who have lived their entire lives lamenting this trade have come to refer to it as the Curse of the Bambino.
- Short, well-made documentary showing how the NY Yankees vs. AZ Diamondbacks world series games, just a month after 9-11, provided welcome relief from the uncertainty New Yorkers, and the nation, felt about how to proceed with their lives. The Yankees, during the series, came to symbolize and re-strengthen everything that was, and is, New York... and America.
- The Fania All Stars perform for 44,000 fans at Yankee stadium in New York. Besides concert footage, there's also included a history of Salsa, and vintage film clips of Hollywood's portrayal of Latinos in movies during the 1930's and 40's.
- Highlights of a concert filmed at Yankee Stadium in New York City on June 21, 1969.
- The anonymous stories on how a small country like the Dominican Republic can produce so many baseball superstars.
- Margie is a reporter on a tabloid newspaper. Her assignment is to find out whether there is any truth to the rumor that college football star Babe Booth is secretly married. To get her story, she goes to the stadium where Booth is playing and gets involved in the game, with unexpected results.
- Mel Allen provides the narration while stars of the golf course, the baseball diamond (where all the players wear baseball caps and none wear baseball hats since there was no such item), and aquatic performers in Florida show off their skills and style. Golfer Patty Berg hits a few golf balls, while the American and National League All-Stars (all wearing baseball caps and none wearing baseball hats) show their wares at the All-Star Game in Boston.
- Yankees On Deck gives Yankee fans a driver seat onto what its like to be a part of the Yankee Organization from player, to front office all the way to a concession stand worker at the Stadium.
- Live heavyweight boxing from Yankee Stadium in New York as the champion, Muhammad Ali, takes on the challenger, Ken Norton, for the third time.
- The video features Carey singing in Yankee Stadium, intercut with shots of audience members, often accompanied by loved ones, and some glimpses into the tough times in their past, as they grow emotional from the song's performance. A gospel choir joins Carey at the center of the stadium at the video's end.
- The New York Yankees defeat the Brooklyn Dodgers for the 1947 World's Championship.
- 'Local Heroes' explores the Capital District's rich baseball history, from its mythical beginnings with Ballston Spa native Abner Doubleday to Heritage Park in Colonie - and everything in between.
- The Milwaukee Braves play the New York Yankees in the 1957 World Series.
- The first "Subway Series" since 1956 pitted the 2-time defending World Champion Yankees against the upstart Mets in a 5-game showdown marked by high emotions and controversy.