Little Big League

The 1994 film Little Big League is about 12-year-old baseball fan Billy Heywood who inherits the Minnesota Twins when his grandfather dies and makes himself the club's manager. It sounds completely improbable, but the hero is a true baseball fanatic, deeply versed in baseball history in large part thanks to his late grandfather, and manages to win over the players, in large part because their previous manager was unsufferable, and because it turns out young Billy is wise beyond his years even though normal pre-teenage interests sometimes interfere with his work.

Major leaguers Kevin Elster and Leon Durham had roles in the film. Ashley Crow played Billy's mother in the film; her real son, Pete Crow-Armstrong, born a few years after the movie was shot, was drafted in the first round of the 2020 amateur draft and made his Big League debut in 2023.

Further Reading

• David Krell: "'Situations and Tendencies': The Minnesota Twins, the Hero's Journey, and the Unsung Magic of Little Big League", in Michael J. Haupert, ed.: Baseball in the Land of 10,000 Lakes, The National Pastime, 2024 Edition, pp. 87-89.

External Link

• Internet Movie Database information on the movie