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"Ken Burns watch out ! This is the sweetest
film about baseball I've ever seen." - Jill Godmilow (Academy
Award nominated director, Best Documentary, Antonia: A Portrait
of the Woman -1974 )
If you've ever spent a July afternoon at a Little
League baseball game anywhere in the midwest, you'll recognize the
extraordinary subtle pleasures of I Coach Wendy's - an hour
long, sensuous traipse through a South Bend, Indiana Little League
season, from the first meeting of the fund-raising committee to
the last out of the final game. Meet Bev, the provocative play-by-play
announcer who knows the strengths and weaknesses of every 9-12 year-old
"minor leaguer". Meet Eddie, the hair-cutting sponsor
of the "Eddie's Barber Stylists" team. (His shop sits
exactly 500 feet beyond the left field fence.) And meet Ted Mandell,
the coach of "Wendy's". He's your first-person guide,
cameraman, and chief reminiscer - peppering the tape with stories
of his own Little League career in Erlanger, Kentucky while dodging
rumored advances from his shortstop's single Mom. Take a seat in
the stands and spend and hour with I Coach Wendy's; a frank,
often hilarious look into a lazy summer season of baseball in America's
Heartland. |
)Sample Scenes
Wendy's Drive Thru
(55 sec., 6mb)
Fundraiser
(45 sec., 5 mb)
Slide ! (41
sec., 4.8 mb)
Eddie the Barber
(45 sec., 4.9 mb)
Good Game
(34 sec., 4 mb)
To purchase a copy of I Coach Wendys, email tmandell@nd.edu
Copyright 2004
Ted Mandell.
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