It’s now October and so it feels appropriate to wrap up the baseball season with a documentary about a player known as Mr. October.
The Batter’s Eye: Reggie
Year: 2023
The Batter’s Eye: Hardball: The Girls of Summer
Women have played baseball from the beginning of the sport, but as men’s leagues dominated, girls and women got pushed into softball. Professional (or even semi-professional) women’s baseball leagues all but disappeared.
The Batter’s Eye: Weeds on Fire
Yeah, it’s a familiar story, even more so as Lung and Wai’s friendship turns into a rivalry, but it’s baseball. The usual beats of this story are comforting in a lot of ways. We watch baseball movies to see the underdogs become champions and this delivers on that.
The Batter’s Eye: Again
After her father’s death, Mie (Haru) finds a batch of New Year’s cards that were never sent to his fellow high school baseball players. Mie takes it upon herself to get the team back together for the Masters Koshien, a senior baseball tournament.
The Batter’s Eye: The Battered Bastards of Baseball
Baseball loves underdogs and misfits. Regardless of how true that is or not in reality, that’s the impression the sport gives. It’s a game where everyone can find a chance to shine.