A Winner Never Quits (TV film)
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| A Winner Never Quits (TV) | |
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 VHS Cover for A Winner Never Quits (TV) |
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| Directed by | Mel Damski |
| Produced by | Daniel H. Blatt Robert Singer James Keach |
| Written by | Burt Prelutsky |
| Starring | Keith Carradine Mare Winningham G.W. Bailey Dennis Weaver Huckleberry Fox |
| Music by | Dana Kaproff |
| Cinematography | Joseph F. Biroc |
| Editing by | Michael A. Stevenson |
| Distributed by | Columbia Tri-Star Television Sony Pictures Television |
| Release date(s) | 1986 |
| Running time | 96 min. |
| Language | English |
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A Winner Never Quits is a 1986 TV movie based on the true story of baseball player Pete Gray, the only one-armed man ever to play major league baseball, hired in 1943 as a "freak attraction" and wartime morale-booster by the Memphis Chicks, Class-A minor league ball club.
Though a success, Gray maintains a tough, defensive veneer, which is softened only by the love of his life Annie and the adulation of baseball fan Nelson Gary Jr., who has also lost an arm (and who would, in real life, become a top minor-league ballplayer himself). With the war depleting big-league baseball's manpower in 1945, Pete Gray finally achieves his goal of entering the Majors when he is hired by the St. Louis Browns.
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[edit] Synopsis
Raised in the in the Northeastern Pennsylvania mining town of Nanticoke, Pete Gray lost his right arm while still a young boy. But through the encouragement of his immigrant parents Antoinette and Peter Wyshner, Sr. and the constant coaching of his older brother Whitey, Gray never gives up on his dream of playing professional baseball. Driven by anger, he finally makes it to the big leagues. But it isn't until he agrees to meet handicapped youngster Nelson Gary, Jr., who idolizes him, that Gray finally comes to terms with several life realizations.
[edit] Featured cast
| Actor | Role |
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| Keith Carradine | Pete (Wyshner) Gray |
| Mare Winningham | Annie |
| G.W. Bailey | Tatum |
| Dennis Weaver | Mr. Wyshner |
| Huckleberry Fox | Nelson Gary, Jr. |
| Jack Kehoe | Bloom |
| Fionnula Flanagan | Mrs. Wyshner |
| Ed O'Neill | Whitey Wyshner |
| Dana Delany | Nora |
| Charles Hallahan | Nelson Gary Sr. |
| Mary Jo Deschanel | Mrs. Gary |
| Jeff McCracken | Sheldrake |
| Steve Rees | Young Pete Gray |
| Andrew Lubeskie | Young Whitey |
[edit] Home media
A VHS version of A Winner Never Quits was released on August 18, 1993, by Columbia Tri-Star. It is now out of print.
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