A Winner Never Quits (1986)

Directed by

Mel Damski

Genre

drama film, biographical film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 45m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A one-armed baseball player named Pete Gray overcomes prejudice and his own anger to succeed in the minor leagues. He finds love and friendship along the way. Eventually he gets a chance to play in the major leagues during World War Two.

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What happens

A Winner Never Quits is a 1986 television film based on the true story of baseball player Pete Gray, the first 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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