If you love watching "Major League," you’ll be fascinated by this inside story. Based on interviews with all major cast members plus crew and producers, it tells how writer/director David S. Ward battled the Hollywood system to turn his own love of the underdog Cleveland Indians into a classic screwball comedy.
Learn how a tight-knit group of rising young stars (and a few wily veterans) had a blast pretending to play ball while creating several iconic characters. Filled with little-known facts and personal recollections about outtakes and inside jokes, batting practice and script changes, all-night location shoots, bar hopping and more, this is the ultimate guide to the film that reinvented the baseball movie and inspired a generation of belly laughs.
Includes rare photos, storyboard illustrations, script excerpts, and more.
With a foreword by Charlie Sheen.
Jonathan Knight has written nine books about sports and is a regular sports commentator on radio and television in Northeast Ohio. He was called “one of the most articulate and devoted sportswriters in Ohio” by the Akron Beacon Journal. A member of both the Society for American Baseball Research and the Pro Football Researchers Association, he's a graduate of Ohio University’s E.W. Scripps School of Journalism. Learn more at www.jknightbooks.com and follow him on Twitter at @jknightwriter.