The Making of Major League: A Juuuust a Bit Inside Look at the Classic Baseball Comedy

· Gray & Company, Publishers
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A behind-the-scenes look at one of the greatest baseball movies ever. 

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.

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About the author

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.

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