Movie: Gift of the Game

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Randy Wayne White
Randy Wayne White

Self

Bill Lee
Bill Lee

Self

Jon Warden
Jon Warden

Self

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    Gift of the Game

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    Acclaimed Florida novelist Randy Wayne White travels to Cuba with former pitchers Bill "Spaceman" Lee (Boston Red Sox) and Jon Warden (Detroit Tigers), and a band of baseball enthusiasts to find and revive the children's baseball league founded by American writer Ernest Hemingway in the days before Fidel Castro came to power.

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    2002-08-01

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