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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| 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 | |
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Tim DiFilippo | ... | Juan Lopez #1 |
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Tom DiFilippo | ... | Juan Lopez #1 |
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Gus Cantrell is a major league pitcher in the twilight of his career. He contacted by Roger Dorn, General Manager of the Minnesota Twins, and offered the role of managing the Buzz, the Twins' AAA team. Cantrell accepts but regrets it almost immediately. The Buzz is a dysfunctional no-hoper team, with an odd assortment of characters. However, Cantrell quickly sets about forging them into a winning team. Written by grantss
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$18,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend USA:
$2,087,011, 19 April 1998, Wide ReleaseGross USA:
$3,551,208, 17 May 1998Company Credits
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Harry Doyle: Oh, I'm so sorry. Here, here's a twenty. Go get yourself another suit.
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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. See more »Goofs
There are two obvious instances of blue screen use. One is when Taka Tanaka is making a relay throw home during the game in Minnesota. Another is when a Buzz player is sliding home beneath an apposing catcher. It's an obvious lift of a similar scene in one of the prior Major League movies in which the catcher appears to be added into the shot. See more »Quotes
[after accidentally-on-purpose spilling a soft drink on the Minnesota announcer]Harry Doyle: Oh, I'm so sorry. Here, here's a twenty. Go get yourself another suit.
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Gus Cantrell is a major league pitcher in the twilight of his career. He contacted by Roger Dorn, General Manager of the Minnesota Twins, and offered the role of managing the Buzz, the Twins' AAA team. Cantrell accepts but regrets it almost immediately. The Buzz is a dysfunctional no-hoper team, with an odd assortment of characters. However, Cantrell quickly sets about forging them into a winning team.
My expectations for this, the third installment of Major League, were quite low. The first Major League was great but Major League II was very disappointing, filled with clichés, cheap humour and unrealistic baseball. Back to the Minors initially promised to be more of the same, looking quite unoriginal and predictable.
However, it grows on you and its charms become more apparent with time. The key is that it is set in the Minor Leagues, so instead of the glamour of major league baseball, we have no-frills, small town, salt-of-the-earth baseball. It makes a refreshing change and does help the engagement factor.
This all said, it is still fairly predictable and the humour hit- and-miss, but the baseball is fairly realistic, certainly more realistic than Major League II.
Overall, okay, not brilliant, but better than Major League II, at least.