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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...script, adapted from Peter Gent's novel of the same name, is fairly true to the book. Like gent's novel, the movie captures the urban cowboy humor of the locker rooms, it delights in the sadistic pedantry of the coaches who see football as a business and players as equipment, and it squirms with pain from beginning to end. For caricatures, the supporting characters are remarkable--they put a lot into their limited parts. G.D. Spradin as Coach Johnson has a fear-inspiring glimmer in his eye and a loud piercing voice; he's an army sergeant...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Of Balls and Men | 8/10/1979 | See Source »

Bill Lee--the last hold out of "the heads"--cleaned out his locker amd went home for a few days, leaving nothing but a lit candle on Zimmer's desk in memory of his friend and comrade Carbo...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: When Cleveland Comes to Zion | 8/3/1979 | See Source »

Garcia went into action once again. He tracked down Weaver and sent him to the locker room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baltimore's Soft-Shelled Crab | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

...then. His father ran the dry-cleaning establishment that cleaned uniforms for both clubs. At age seven, Earl went into the locker rooms to pick up the laundry. "I used to walk into that clubhouse and carry a big armful of dirty uniforms out to my dad's van. You don't think my eyes were big? Those were the uniforms Leo Durocher, Ducky Medwick, Pepper Martin wore, and I was carrying them in my arms. By the time I was eleven or twelve, I was seeing 100 baseball games a year, sitting in the stands second-guessing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baltimore's Soft-Shelled Crab | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

...Garry Templeton, 23, is averaging .332 and fielding with a brilliance that recalls the feats of the great Marty ("Slats") Marion, who played the position for the glorious Cardinal teams of the 1940s. With the hits falling like raindrops, small wonder that the Cards celebrate each victory in the locker room with a blaring disco rendition of We Are Family by Sister Sledge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Spirit of St. Louis | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

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