Synopsis: Clint Eastwood stars as an aging baseball scout who takes his estranged daughter (Amy Adams) on the road to check out a new prospect in Atlanta.
In one of his great essays about baseball, the late A. Bartlett Giamatti famously called the game “our best invention to stay change.” Giamatti (who, besides being president of Yale University, was briefly commissioner of Major League Baseball) added, “I need to think somethin...
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