Hardball (1994 TV series)
Hardball | |
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Created by | Jeff Martin Kevin Curran |
Starring | Bruce Greenwood Mike Starr Joe Rogan Phill Lewis Dann Florek |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 9 (2 unaired) |
Production | |
Running time | 30 minutes |
Production companies | Interbang, Inc. Magic Beans, Inc. Touchstone Television |
Original release | |
Network | Fox |
Release | September 4 – October 23, 1994 |
Hardball is an American baseball sitcom that aired Sunday nights at 8:30 pm on Fox from September 4, 1994 to October 23, 1994. The series premiered in the middle of the 1994–95 Major League Baseball strike and was canceled around the time that the year's World Series would have been played.[1]
Premise
The series focused on the players and staff of the Pioneers, a fictional American League baseball team. Among those shown were veteran pitcher Dave Logan, catcher Mike Widmer, manager Ernest 'Happy' Talbot, team owner Mitzi Balzer, and Hardball, the team mascot.
Cast
- Bruce Greenwood as Dave Logan
- Mike Starr as Mike Widmer
- Joe Rogan as Frank Valente
- Phill Lewis as Arnold Nixon
- Chris Browning as Llyod LaCombe
- Dann Florek as Ernest 'Happy' Talbot
- Steve Hytner as Brad Coolidge
- Alexandra Wentworth as Lee Emory
- Rose Marie as Mitzi Balzer
- Adam Hendershott as Nelson Balzer
References
- ^ The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present. Ballantine Books. 2003. p. 506. ISBN 0-345-45542-8.
Categories:
- 1990s American comedy television series
- 1994 American television series debuts
- 1994 American television series endings
- American sports television series
- American television sitcoms
- Baseball on television in the United States
- Baseball television series
- English-language television programming
- Fox network shows
- United States television show stubs