TY - ADVS AU - Nides,Tina AU - Tollin,Mike AU - Robbins,Brian TI - Hardball PY - 2002///] CY - Hollywood, Ca. PB - Paramount KW - Children in motion pictures KW - Sports in motion pictures N1 - Executive producer, Kevin McCormick ; editor, Ned Bastille ; screenplay, John Gatins; Cast: Keanu Reeves, Diane Lane, John Hawkes, D. B. Sweeney N2 - A down-on-his-luck gambler finds himself in debt to a dangerous loan shark. Desperate for cash, he reluctantly takes on the job of coaching a youth baseball team. The team turns out to be a ragtag group of tough-talking kids from Chicago's inner city. Now, as he must wrestles with his past, the kids start to teach him some lessons that will forever change his future ER -