Major League: Back to the Minors (1998)

User Rating:

4.0/10   

Director:

John Warren

Writers (WGA):

David S. Ward (characters)
John Warren (written by)

Release Date:

17 April 1998 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Sport

Tagline:

They're Just Nine Players Short of a Dream Team

Plot:

Aging minor league pitcher Gus Cantrell is planning to retire, but then Roger recruits Gus to be the manager of the South Carolina Buzz...

Plot Keywords:

Baseball | Sequel | Third Part | Sports Team

Cast

Scott Bakula	...	Gus Cantrell
Corbin Bernsen	...	Roger Dorn
Dennis Haysbert	...	Pedro Cerrano
Takaaki Ishibashi	...	Taka Tanaka
Jensen Daggett	...	Maggie Reynolds
Eric Bruskotter	...	Rube Baker
Walton Goggins	...	Billy 'Downtown' Anderson
Ted McGinley	...	Leonard Huff
Kenny Johnson	...	Lance Pere (as Kenneth Johnson)
Judson Mills	...	Hog Ellis
Lobo Sebastian	...	Carlos Liston
Thom Barry	...	Frank 'Pops' Morgan
Peter Mackenzie	...	Carlton 'Doc' Windgate
Tim DiFilippo	...	Juan Lopez #1
Tom DiFilippo	...	Juan Lopez #1

Also Known As:

Major League 3: Back to the Minors (USA) (working title)
Major League 3: The Minors (USA) (working title)
Major League III (USA) (short title)
Major League: The Minors (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for brief language.

Runtime:

100 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

UK:12 | USA:PG-13 | Singapore:PG

Filming Locations:

Charleston Naval Base, Charleston, South Carolina, USA

Company:

Morgan Creek Productions

Trivia:

Roger Dorn (Bernsen), Pedro Cerrano (Haysbert), Duke Temple (Yeager) and Harry Doyle (Uecker) are the only characters to appear in all three films in the Major League series.

Goofs:

Continuity: Scoreboard inconsistencies during the final game at Buzz Stadium.

Quotes:

Gus Cantrell: God... if You can hear me, *please*... send me *one* real baseball player. That's all I ask. And if you can't grant me that then... well... you might as well just strike me dead right here and now.
[he gets hit with the baseball]

Movie Connections:

References The Fan (1996)

Could have been very good

I got the feeling when I watched this that someone had written a nice script about minor league baseball, and somebody got a hold of it and said, "Hey, let's just make this a 'Major League' movie!" I got the feeling the characters from the previous two movies were just tacked onto the existing story line. Which is bad, because there were some good things in this, like the old (actually, ancient) minor league outfielder who was converted to first. And the young phenom hitter.

Not Bull Durham, but could have been good.