A baseball prodigy was discovered by actor Adam Sandler and made it into one of his films. At just 4 years old, he got to throw the ceremonial first pitch at a Dodgers game. Now, Hollywood’s making a film about him. But all of the above is just to paint a picture of Christian Haupt….

A baseball prodigy was discovered by actor Adam Sandler and made it into one of his films. At just 4 years old, he got to throw the ceremonial first pitch at a Dodgers game. Now, Hollywood’s making a film about him. But all of the above is just to paint a picture of Christian Haupt….

Cathy Byrd’s son Christian had been enamored with baseball as soon as he could walk. He had a little bat, ball, glove, and even a uniform, and thought about baseball 24 hours a day, Byrd said. The toddler was as obsessed with the sport as he was talented, an early video of him racking up…

Not Rated | 2 h 8 min | Drama, Biopic | 1943 One of Hollywood’s all-time greats, Gary Cooper, was born in 1901. One of America’s all-time baseball greats, Lou Gehrig, was born just two years later, in 1903. Both loved the outdoors; Gehrig, hitting his heart out as first baseman for the Yankees, and…

Earle F. Zeigler, a founder of the North American Society of Sport Management, once wrote that “from antiquity we know that ‘hero’ was the name given to a man of ‘superhuman strength, courage, or ability, favoured by the gods; regarded later as demigod and immortal.’” He further defined a cultural hero as “a mythicized historical…