The Mendoza Line
Ricardo Perez is struggling through his third year in A-ball as a back-up catcher, barely hitting above The Mendoza Line (.200). His marriage to Christina is on the rocks. Her patience of spending the summers in a small hot valley town with no friends, caring for their two year old son, working two part-time jobs while supporting Ricardo’s progressively unrealistic dream is wearing thin. As undocumented immigrants, they are constantly looking over their shoulders.
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The Mendoza Line
Coffee is big business in Chiapas, Mexico, where baseball is even more popular than soccer. When a plant disease decimates the industry, five year old Ricardo Perez is taken across the Rio Grande in search of a better life with his family. Before Ricardo’s father abandons him, he instills a love ...
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Minor Leagues Major Dreams
Forget your highlight tapes and sepia-tinted nostalgia riffs, the real soul of pro baseball lies three leagues below the majors — where teenage phenoms find out if they're for real and suspects are weeded from prospects. Observant documentarian Nathan Kaufman spent the 1991 season with the Oaks (...
