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The Rookie
2002 · Film · 127 min
Directed by John Lee Hancock
Jim Morris never made it out of the minor leagues before a shoulder injury ended his pitching career twelve years ago. Now a married-with-children high-school chemistry teacher and baseball coach in Texas, Jim's team makes a deal with him: if they win the district championship, Jim will try out with a major-league organization. The bet proves incentive enough for the team, and they go from worst to first, making it to state for the first time in the history of the school. Jim, forced to live up to his end of the deal, is nearly laughed off the try-out field--until he gets onto the mound, where he confounds the scouts (and himself) by clocking successive 98 mph fastballs, good enough for a minor-league contract with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Jim's still got a lot of pitches to throw before he makes it to The Show, but with his big-league dreams revived, there's no telling where he could go.
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This makes me remember the movie 'The Rookie' (Disney, 2002) with Dennis Quaid.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt00265662/
Based on the story of Jim Morris
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Morris
I don't watch much sports :(
Looks like Jordan was MVP in 95-96
the main character of the movie Thomas Ian Nicholas who played Henry Rowengartner - neither of which show up in the 95-96 season roster
The rookie of the year for the NBA in general was Damon Stoudamire from the Toronto Raptors; I can't find who the Bulls thought their "rookie of the year" was specifically though...
(yes, i saw it was a "sql query" but i thought there was more to it; like try to find out who the actual rookie of the year was for the bulls)
or... am i over analyzing this?
It's not just teachers, but any popular media portrayal of someone being successful: the magical teacher, the genius investor, the miracle comeback kid, etc. You have Billy Madison, The Rookie, Kill Bill, The Karate Kid, all of these films showing someone going from zero to AWESOME in less than two hours. I think it's really just the nature of the media and how we respond to it that we want to believe that these kinds of people exist and surround us -- we want to believe that WE can be that kind of person, too.