A Winner Never Quits
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A Winner Never Quits | |
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Joseph F. Biroc | |
Editor | Michael A. Stevenson |
Running time | 96 min. |
Production companies | Columbia Pictures Television Sony Pictures Television |
Original release | |
Network | ABC |
Release | April 14, 1986 |
A Winner Never Quits is a 1986
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.
Plot
Raised in the Northeastern Pennsylvania mining town of Nanticoke, Pete Gray loses 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.
Cast
Actor | Role |
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Keith Carradine | Pete (Wyshner) Gray |
Mare Winningham | Annie |
G.W. Bailey |
Tatum |
Dennis Weaver | Peter Wyshner |
Huckleberry Fox | Nelson Gary Jr. |
Jack Kehoe | Bloom |
Fionnula Flanagan | Antoinette Wyshner |
Ed O'Neill | Whitey Wyshner |
Dana Delany | Nora |
Charles Hallahan | Nelson Gary Sr. |
Mary Jo Deschanel | Mrs. Gary |
Jeff McCracken | Sheldrake |
Steve Rees | Young Pete Gray |
Andrew Lubeskie | Young Whitey |
Brad Sullivan | Taylor |
John Hostetter | Sergeant |
Ted Henning | Brook |
Home media
A Winner Never Quits was released on VHS on August 18, 1993, by Columbia Tri-Star.
See also
External links
- A Winner Never Quits (1986 TV) at IMDb