După o întâlnire pe nevăzute dezastruoasă, Lauren și Jim, părinți celibatari, se pun de acord asupra unui lucru: să nu se mai întâlnească niciodată. Însă fiecare pleacă într-o vacanță cu copiii și ajung să locuiască în același apartament luxos timp de o săptămână de safari în Africa.
Locotenentul Drebin este un tip total incompetent, dar care, prin cine știe ce minune, reușește întotdeauna să încurce atât de tare planurile răufăcătorilor, încât aceștia ajung mereu în spatele gratiilor. În timpul vizitei oficiale pe care Regina Elisabeta a II-a o întreprinde pe teritoriul Statelor Unite, viața acesteia este pusă în pericol de Vincent Ludwig, un criminal notoriu, care intenționează să o asasineze, prin intermediul unui jucător de baseball căruia i-a fost spălat creierul.
Gus Lobel este un cercetător în vârstă pentru echipa de baseball Atlanta Braves, care caută noi talente. Cu toate acestea, în ciuda sprijinului prietenului și colegului său, Pete Klein, angajatorii săi, inclusiv ambițiosul Philip Sanderson, s-au gândit să nu-i reînnoiască contractul din cauza incapacității sale de a se adapta la noile tehnologii și a fiabilității judecății sale, cu privire la unul dintre cele mai recente achiziții, Billy Clark, ale cărui rezultate sunt dezamăgitoare.
Filmul este inspirat dintr-o poveste adevarată - aceea a fostului jucător de baseball Billy Beane - care, nereușind să fie cel mai bun pe teren conform propriei ștachete, renunță și devine manager al echipei Oakland Athletics. Însă în campionatul din 2002, Billy se confruntă cu o situație foarte problematică: cei mai buni jucători părăsesc echipa, atrași de salariile oferite de marile cluburi. Jucătorii care rămân sunt nevoiți să se mulțumească cu o treime din salariu. Dar Billy este ambițios și hotărât să câștige campionatul.
Naziștii, exasperați de numărul evadărilor din lagărele lor de către un număr relativ mic de prizonieri aliați, îi mută într-un lagăr de înaltă securitate, până la finalul războiului. Nemulțumiți, prizonierii planifică una dintre cele mai ambițioase încercări de evadare din al doilea război mondial. Bazat pe o poveste adevărată.
Când un fenomen rar îi oferă ofițerului de poliție John Sullivan șansa de a vorbi cu tatăl său, cu 30 de ani în trecut, el folosește ocazia pentru a împiedica moartea tragică a tatălui său. După ce acțiunile sale dau naștere din greșeală unei serii de crime brutale, el și tatăl său trebuie să găsească o cale de a rezolva consecințele modificării timpului.
În timp ce al Doilea Război Mondial era în plină desfășurare, Jimmy Dugan, unul dintre puținii bărbați neîncorporați, un individ cam bețivan, dar cu un suflet mare și entuziast, pune pe picioare o echipă de baseball formată numai din femei, asumându-și ingrata funcție de manager. În istoricul ligii americane, asemenea echipe feminine au existat cu adevărat și continuă să existe și astăzi.
SUA, anii '50. Un tată afro-american se confruntă cu problemele obișnuite pe care le au oamenii de culoare generate de rasism. Acesta încearcă să-și întrețină familia și să le dea copiilor săi o educație cât se poate de bună.
Un jucător de baseball a cărui carieră profesională a fost întreruptă din cauza problemelor sale personale este trezit și revigorat brusc de un tânăr cu sindrom Down care lucrează la un magazin alimentar local.
Când un băiat își pune dorința la un aparat de carnaval să fie mare, se trezește în dimineața următoare și constată că i s-a îndeplinit și corpul lui a crescut peste noapte. Dar este încă același băiat de 13 ani la interior. Acum trebuie să învețe cum să facă față lumii necunoscute a adulților, inclusiv să obțină un loc de muncă și să aibă prima sa întâlnire romantică cu o femeie.
Simțindu-se tratată cu dispreț după ce a fost dată afară din echipa națională de softball, Lisa ajunge în mijlocul unui triunghi amoros.
Această biografie îi este consacrată lui Jackie Robinson, care a devenit în 1947 primul jucător de baseball de culoare din epoca modernă a Major League.
Crash și Nuke sunt colegi pe terenul de baseball și rivali în viața sentimentală, amândoi dorind compania lui Annie. Crash, mai experimentat decat Nuke, care se află la început de drum, îl va ajuta pe acesta să își găsească drumul spre o carieră frumoasă de succes, celălalt rămânând cu dragostea lui Annie.
Un cuplu varstnic porneste intr-o calatorie catre Tokyo pentru a-si vizita copiii. Ajunsi acolo ei se confrunta cu indiferenta, egoism si nerecunostinta.
Twins Kazuya and Tatsuya, and their neighbor Minami have played together since they were children and built an unbreakable bond. But with puberty, the twins realized something: Minami is a girl, and three is a crowd. As the trio tries to preserve their relationship, Kazuya's pledge to make Minami's dream come true by taking her to Koshien with his baseball pitching skills makes the slackerish Tatsuya wonder about himself, and his own goals. But Minami has another dream she wants fulfilled, and as the twins continue to push themselves, with Minami in the middle, a life-changing tragedy leads one twin down a path he once never would've considered...
Shigeno Daigo is an elementary student whose father, Goro, is a professional baseball player. Inspired by his father, who was once a Major League player, Daigo started playing baseball with the Mifune Dolphins, a youth team. However, he was unable to live up to the expectations of being the son of a professional, and quit baseball after less than a year. Then, in the spring of his sixth-grade year, Daigo's school welcomes a transfer student, Sato Hikaru, whose father is Sato Toshiya, a former Major League player and Goro's close friend. The fate of these two young men begins to move forward!
Honda Goro the son of a famous baseball player loves nothing more than baseball itself. His biggest dream is to show his father that he can become the best pitcher in the world despite all the hardships he had to endure he keeps on running towards his goal at full speed.
Eijun Sawamura is a pitcher who joins an elite school with a brilliant catcher named Kazuya Miyuki. Together with the rest of the team, they strive for Japan's storied Koushien championships through hard work and determination.
With his major league baseball debut right around the corner, a star pitcher lands in prison and must learn to navigate his new world.
Kishimoto Kasumi, a 15-year-old girl, was supposed to live at her auntie's house in order to go to high school since April. However, when she moved to the house she was surprised with the fact that there were already four new male students living in the same house. To make the matter worse, that day while she was taking a bath, Takasugi Yusaku, one of those boys, came into the bath and saw her naked. This is how Kasumi's troublesome high school days started. (Source: AniDB)
Keiko Himuro, Chairman of the Kisuragi School, puts together an all-girl baseball team led by Ryo Hayakawa, daughter of a legendary pitcher, in hopes of proving that girls can compete just as well as boys. Their goal: Koshien stadium, where only the best teams get the opportunity to play.
Kunimi Hiro is a high school student, who is forced to give up his ambitions as a professional baseball player due to a serious injury. Now at a new high school, Hiro gets involved with Haruko and her goals of reviving that school's baseball team. At first they must overcome the refusal of school principle, who still remembers a dishonorable defeat that the school's baseball suffered some ten years earlier. Even with permission to form a school baseball team, there are still the players to recruit and train, and the challenges of building a reputation of the team within the high school baseball circuit. This is a story of group of high school students and their love of the game of baseball. Hiro is national class pitcher and batter, with his best friend who is a catcher and with Haruko as the team manager, together they struggle to build a baseball team worthy of the national championship.
Amateur baseball players go up against legendary pros in a championship to determine the ultimate winning team.
In 1925 (year 14 of the Taishō period), after being told by a baseball player that women should become housewives instead of going to school, two 14-year-old Japanese high school girls named Koume and Akiko decide to start a baseball team in order to prove him wrong. During this time, when even running was considered too vulgar for women, baseball is known as "what the boys do" and they face many difficulties when searching members, getting permission from their parents and when learning about the sport itself.
When Arihara Tsubasa enters Rigahama Municipal High School and learns that it has no baseball club, she starts up the Girls' Baseball Club on her own. Drawn to the club are girls who have never played baseball before, girls who once played it but quit, and girls who are constantly tackling great challenges. The Rigahama Girls' Baseball Club races through the trials of youth, periodically clashing and quarreling, but supporting each other all the way! And so begins the hottest summer the world has ever known...
Although the city of Fukuoka might look relatively peaceful at first glance, in actuality it houses a thriving mixture of dangerous individuals such as killers, detectives, and professional revenge seekers right beneath its surface. Among their number is Zenji Banba, a laidback and observant detective who is investigating the work of other hitmen companies in the area. However, Banba might not be the only one with a bone to pick with these organizations, as Xianming Ling, a crossdressing male hitman in the employ of one such company begins getting fed up with his lack of jobs and pay. One day, after Ling's current target commits suicide before the hitman could reach him, his company refuses to pay him even half the amount they were originally supposed to for the assassination. Frustrated, Ling requests another mission and is offered the job of taking out Banba, whom his organization believes has been interfering with their business. However, when Banba arrives at his home and finds the hitman inside, Ling surprisingly doesn't even attempt to kill him. Instead, he offers the detective another option: to join him and form a team. With the offer on the table, exactly how will Banba respond, and just what plans does Ling have in store for the underground world of Fukuoka?
Kō Kitamura, whose family owns a sporting goods store, has known the Tsukishima girls since he was born. The Tsukishima family runs a batting center and cafe, and they have four daughters. There's Ichiyo, the responsible eldest; Wakaba, Kō's cheerful best friend; Aoba, who doesn't get along with Kō; and Momiji, the energetic youngest daughter. When Kō enters high school, he aspires to lead his baseball team to the Koshien National High School Championship as their ace pitcher and make Wakaba's dream come true.
Takumi Harada is an extremely gifted baseball pitcher. Upon entering junior high school, Takumi moves to a town situated in the mountains due to his father's job transfer. There, he meets a new classmate Go Nagakura, a catcher who is able to get Takumi's most powerful pitches. Takumi and Go both join the school's baseball team where they develop a firm friendship and grow as individuals through their battery.
Because of the legend left by Tatsuya Uesugi, Meisei Academy High School was well-known for their strong baseball team. But 26 years after their glory, the team has not been able to keep their record and has since lost their fame. Two stepbrothers, Souichirou and Touma Tachibana, aim to revive of the once-strong Meisei Academy baseball team and enter the National High School Baseball Championship. Souichirou and Touma are second years in Meisei Academy Middle School. Both boys are talented baseball players. Souichirou has shown excellent skill as a catcher and batter. Though having an extraordinary skill as a pitcher, Touma no longer pitches due to a certain reason. Once the two enter high school, they pair as a battery and aim to enter the National High School Baseball Championship!
Ren Mihashi was the ace of his middle school's baseball team, but due to his poor pitching, they could never win. Constant losses eventually lead to his teammates bullying him and reached the point where his teammates no longer tried to win, causing Mihashi to graduate with little self-esteem. As a result, Mihashi decides to go to a high school in a different prefecture where he has no intention of playing baseball. Unfortunately, upon his arrival at Nishiura High, he is dragged into joining their new team as the starting pitcher. Although unwilling at first, Mihashi realizes that this is a place where he will be accepted for who he is; with help from the catcher Takaya Abe, he starts to have more confidence in his own abilities. Abe, seeing the potential in Mihashi, makes it a goal to help him become a pitcher worthy of being called an ace.
Se Young is the youngest head of the management team of Dreams, a cellar-dwelling baseball team. She's highly recognized for her perseverance and intense passion for the team. One day, Seung Su is appointed as a general manager. Although he's been working in the sports field, the teams he led to the championship were unpopular, and some of them were even disbanded after winning the league due to the financial difficulties of their parent companies. Would this unlucky new general manager be able to steer Dreams to the championship with passionate Se Young?
A famed major league baseball announcer who suffers an embarrassing and very public meltdown live on the air after discovering his beloved wife's serial infidelity decides to reclaim his career and love life in a small town a decade later.
The series follows the romantic and professional trials of an aspiring nurse and two baseball players as they strive for their love and dreams.
