With the new season underway and excitement mounting over up-and-coming rookies, we decided that the best possible way to celebrate was to watch one of the very few (maybe only?) Rays-themed baseball movies out there: The Rookie.
A feel-good Disney flick starring Dennis Quaid, The Rookie is the true story of Rays’ reliever Jim Morris, a high school teacher and baseball coach who makes a bet with his students that if they can make it to the state championships, he will attend the open tryouts for the new Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Morris, a former minor leaguer, left the game in his early adulthood due to injury, but was still holding back some electric stuff.