A Winner Never Quits (TV film)

Infobox Film | name =A Winner Never Quits (TV)


caption = VHS Cover for "A Winner Never Quits" (TV)
director = Mel Damski
producer = Daniel H. Blatt
Robert Singer
James Keach
writer = Burt Prelutsky
starring = Keith Carradine
Mare Winningham
G.W. Bailey
Dennis Weaver
Ed O'Neill
music = Dana Kaproff
cinematography = Joseph F. Biroc
editing = Michael A. Stevenson
distributor = Columbia Tri-Star Television
Sony Pictures Television
released = 1986
runtime = 96 min.
language = English
budget =
imdb_id = 0092221

"A Winner Never Quits" is a 1986 TV movie based on the true story of baseball player Pete Gray, the only 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.

ynopsis

Raised in the in the Northeastern Pennsylvania mining town of Nanticoke, Pete Gray lost his right arm while still a young boy. But through the encouragement of his immigrant parents Antoinette and Peter Wyshner, Sr. and the constant coaching of his older brother Whitey, Gray never gives up on his dream of playing professional baseball. Driven by anger, he finally makes it to the big leagues. But it isn't until he agrees to meet handicapped youngster Nelson Gary, Jr., who idolizes him, that Gray finally comes to terms with several life realizations.

Featured cast

Home media

A VHS version of "A Winner Never Quits" was released on August 18, 1993, by Columbia Tri-Star. It is now out of print.

External links

*imdb title|id=0092221|title=A Winner Never Quits (1986 TV)