The non- Florida baseball sequences were filmed at New York City's Yankee and Shea Stadiums during late May and June 1972, when the Yankees and Mets were on extended road-trips. While visiting Bruce's grave, Henry vows, "From here on in, I rag nobody." After the season is over, Bruce dies, and Henry is the only member of the team to attend his funeral, serving as pallbearer. As they part ways at the airport, Bruce asks Henry to send him a scorecard from the Series, which Henry laments he never did. The team eventually wins the World Series, but Bruce returns home to spend his final days with his parents. Near the end of the season, Bruce becomes too ill to continue playing. They begin to treat Bruce differently and each other as well, and the team's play and mood both improve. He asks that it remain confidential, but quickly teammates and Dutch all learn the news.
One day when a player teases Bruce, a frustrated Henry blurts out the fact that Bruce is dying. Henry knows she is interested only in Bruce's money and is taking advantage of his circumstances, so Henry only pretends to change it. Knowing that he is dying, Bruce wants Henry to change the beneficiary on his life insurance policy from his parents to his girlfriend Katie. In the meantime, the Mammoths are losing games and have a low morale, with teammates quarreling among themselves. If one is traded or sent down to the minor leagues, the other goes, too.ĭutch tries everything to make Henry reveal why he insists that Bruce catch for him. So management is amazed and confused when Henry ends his holdout and agrees to a new contract on one condition: that he and Bruce come as a package.
At spring training, Dutch is preparing to release Bruce in favor of a hot young prospect, country boy Piney Woods. The team knows nothing about Bruce's fate. On their first night there, Bruce burns his old baseball memorabilia to acknowledge the inevitable end of his life. They drive to Bruce's hometown in Georgia, because Bruce always wanted his only friend to see it. Henry and Bruce leave the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, where Bruce has been told he is terminally ill with Hodgkin's disease. Teammates call Henry by the nickname "Author" because the brainy pitcher once wrote a book, although Bruce misunderstands and, with his thick Southern drawl, often calls him "Arthur" instead.
Henry's friend Bruce Pearson, the team's catcher, is a player of limited skill and intellect. Henry has a sideline as an insurance salesman working for the Arcturus Corporation, with ballplayers as his clients. He is a valuable player to his manager Dutch but is in a dispute with the team's ownership, holding out for a new contract and more money. Henry Wiggen is a star pitcher for the New York Mammoths, a fictional Major League Baseball team. De Niro's performance in this film and in Mean Streets, released two months later, brought him widespread acclaim. This version stars Michael Moriarty and a then little known Robert De Niro as baseball teammates. Steel Hour with Paul Newman, Albert Salmi and George Peppard. It was previously dramatized in 1956 on the U.S. It is a film adaptation of the 1956 baseball novel of the same name by American author Mark Harris. Hancock, about a baseball player of limited intellect who has a terminal illness, and his brainier, more skilled teammate. Bang the Drum Slowly is a 1973 American sports drama film directed by John D.
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