The Winning Team

1952
PG
1h 38m

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Doris Day and Ronald Reagan in The Winning Team (1952)

Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueNebraska farmboy Grover Cleveland Alexander achieves baseball stardom before war injuries and alcoholism derail his career, but through his wife's faithful efforts he gets a chance for a com... Tout lireNebraska farmboy Grover Cleveland Alexander achieves baseball stardom before war injuries and alcoholism derail his career, but through his wife's faithful efforts he gets a chance for a comeback and redemption.Nebraska farmboy Grover Cleveland Alexander achieves baseball stardom before war injuries and alcoholism derail his career, but through his wife's faithful efforts he gets a chance for a comeback and redemption.

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Anecdotes
According to TMC, Ronald Reagan had lobbied hard to play the title role in "The Stratton Story" (1949) but Warner Bothers didn't want to take a chance on a baseball film and passed on the project. After "The Stratton Story" became a huge hit, the studio picked up the Grover Cleveland Alexander story about another player who made a comeback after being forced from professional baseball.

Gaffes
The film ends with the 1926 World Series, and Grover Cleveland Alexander retired from baseball in 1930, yet he is seen with a number on the back of his jersey, a practice that did not begin until 1931. Because he never wore a number on his uniform, there was no number for teams to "retire" for this great player. Therefore the Philadelphia Phillies retired the block letter-style "P" from their 1915 uniforms to honor Alexander.

Citations
Aimee Alexander: [while Grover is hospitalized, having been beaned by a baseball] What's the matter?
Grover Cleveland Alexander: Nothing, I'm twice as good as I ever was... I'm seeing two of everything.

Connexions
Featured in Diamonds on the Silver Screen (1992)

Bandes originales
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
(uncredited)
Music by Albert von Tilzer
Lyrics by Jack Norworth
Played during the opening credits and sung by Doris Day

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6/10

Hokey, shallow sports biopic

The movie tells the story of Grover Cleveland Aexander (Ronald Reagan), a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball pitcher for Philadelphia, Chicago, and St. Louis. His great skill on the mound is hampered after he takes a ball to the head, leaving him with double vision. He later serves in World War One, where he suffers from exposure to mustard gas and subsequent shell-shock, after which he develops epilepsy and a severe drinking problem. His farm-girl wife Aimee (Doris Day) tries to help him through his troubles, but are his demons too strong to allow a comeback?

The film skims over Alexander's troubles, and Reagan does a poor job of depicting a man at rock bottom. He always looks like, with just a shave and some pressed clothes, he'd be back at peak. Day doesn't have a lot to do, although she sings a Christmas song at one point, and sounds good doing so. This wasn't the worst sports biopic that I've seen, but I gained more insight on the real man from his Wikipedia page.