Secretly Awesome - Mr. Baseball

Release Date: October 2, 1992

Director: Fred Schepisi

Writers: Gary Ross, Kevin Wade, Monte Merrick

Cast: Tom Selleck, Ken Takakura, Dennis Haysbert, Aya Takanashi

Box Office: $20,883,046

Rotten Tomatoes: 13%

Tom Selleck plays aging, dick-head first baseman Jack Elliot, a veteran Yankee who gets traded off to Japan to play for the Dragons in Mr. Baseball. The Dragons' uptight manager, Uchiyama (played wonderfully by Ken Takakura), brings Elliot on to help them win the pennant and save his job, but stubbornness and ego get in the way, and Elliot ends up being more of a problem than a solution, bringing embarrassment and shame to the team, goofing around rather than owning up to the hole in his swing and accepting Coach's advice on how to fix it.