Roogie's Bump

19541954
ApprovedApproved
1h 11m

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Olive Blakeney, Roy Campanella, Carl Erskine, Billy Loes, Robert Marriott, Russ Meyer, Robert F. Simon, and Ruth Warrick in Roogie's Bump (1954)

A young boy who loves baseball develops a strange bump on his arm. The bump has such an effect on his pitching arm that he soon finds himself playing for a major league baseball team.A young boy who loves baseball develops a strange bump on his arm. The bump has such an effect on his pitching arm that he soon finds himself playing for a major league baseball team.A young boy who loves baseball develops a strange bump on his arm. The bump has such an effect on his pitching arm that he soon finds himself playing for a major league baseball team.

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6.0/10

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Director
- Harold Young
Writers
- Jack Hanley(screenplay)
- Dan Totheroh(screenplay)
- Joyce Selznick(from an original story by)
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A young boy who loves baseball develops a strange bump on his arm. The bump has such an effect on his pitching arm that he soon finds himself playing for a major league baseball team.

12 year old baseball

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- Roogie - the Miracle Kid with the Super ZOOM Ball!
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- Approved
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Trivia
Debut of actress Louise Troy.

Connections
Featured in Sports on the Silver Screen (1997)

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8/10

One of my favorite movies as a kid

I had an experience similar to the reviewer above. I saw the movie as a boy around the time it was released and loved it. I've always remembered certain scenes, such as the boy flying from the mound to home plate after forgetting to release the ball. In another scene, when the boy first learns he has acquired a special power and a 120 mph fastball, he heaves a rock across a river that hits a tower a mile away. In retrospect, I'd infer that the movie visualized fantasy in a way that engaged a young boy's mind -- at least it did in 1954, before computer graphics took our visual expectations to a whole new level.

What I could not recall was the title, which finally came to me when I was chatting with another film buff who remembered it as Roogie's Bump. As far as I'm aware, the original is impossible to find and has never been shown on television. Unfortunately, the 1993 remake by Daniel Stern, released as 'Rookie of the Year', was almost too dreadful to watch.

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