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Director
  
Lewis Seiler

Music director
  
David Buttolph

Country
  
United States

6.6/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Biography, Drama, Romance

Duration
  

Language
  
English

The Winning Team movie poster

Release date
  
June 20, 1952 (1952-06-20)

Writer
  
Ted Sherdeman (screenplay), Seeleg Lester (screenplay), Merwin Gerard (screenplay), Seeleg Lester (story), Merwin Gerard (story)

Screenplay
  
Seeleg Lester, Ted Sherdeman, Merwin Gerard

Cast
  
Doris Day
(Aimee Alexander),
Ronald Reagan
(Grover Cleveland Alexander),
Frank Lovejoy
(Rogers Hornsby),
Eve Miller
(Margaret Killefer),
James Millican
(Bill Killefer),
Russ Tamblyn
(Willie Alexander)

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,
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,
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,
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,
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Tagline
  
To every man who plays for the love of the game....To every woman who has ever played the wonderful game of love.....We promise an experience of heart-warming warmth and excitement.

The Winning Team is a 1952 biographical film directed by Lewis Seiler. It is a fictionalized biography of the life of major league pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander (1887–1950) starring Ronald Reagan as Alexander, Doris Day as his wife, Aimee, and Frank Lovejoy as baseball star Rogers Hornsby.

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The Winning Team movie scenes

It includes his heroic performance in three games in the 1926 World Series against the New York Yankees, where the 7th inning strikeout of Tony Lazzeri is used as the game-ending, Series-winning pitch.

management picking the winning team

The film earned an estimated $1.7 million at the North American box office in 1952.

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Plot

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Poor health (epilepsy) and alcoholism force pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies and Chicago Cubs Grover Cleveland Alexander (Ronald Reagan), former telephone company lineman, out of baseball, but through his wife's (Doris Day) faithful efforts, he gets a chance for a comeback and redemption with the St. Louis Cardinals.

Cast

  • Doris Day as Aimee Alexander
  • Ronald Reagan as Grover Cleveland Alexander
  • Frank Lovejoy as Rogers Hornsby
  • Eve Miller as Margaret Killefer
  • James Millican as Bill Killefer
  • Russ Tamblyn as Willie Alexander
  • Gordon Jones as George Glasheen
  • Hugh Sanders as Joe McCarthy
  • Frank Ferguson as Sam Arrants
  • Walter Baldwin as Pa Alexander
  • Dorothy Adams as Ma Alexander
  • Bob Lemon as Jesse 'Pop' Haines
  • Jerry Priddy as Ballplayer
  • Peanuts Lowery as Ballplayer
  • George Metkovich as Ballplayer

    • Accolades

    The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists:

  • 2006: AFI's 100 Years...100 Cheers – Nominated

    • References

    The Winning Team Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA

    The Winning Team IMDb The Winning Team themoviedb.org