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Belgium1 0 1 2 The Winning Team is a 1952 American biographical film starring Ronald Reagan and Doris Day, and directed by Lewis Seiler. It is a fictionalized biography of the life of major league pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander.
The Winning Team. Nebraska farmboy Grover Cleveland Alexander achieves baseball stardom before war injuries and alcoholism derail his career, but through his wife's faithful efforts he gets a chance for a comeback and redemption.
The Winning Team accurately portrays a washed-up Alexander playing for a comedy baseball team, The House of David, and working in sideshows before his triumphant comeback in the 1926 World Series. But those humiliations actually happened after his career declined and his drinking increased, in the 1930s.
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In 1908 Nebraska, young Grover Cleveland "Alex" Alexander (Ronald Reagan) saves to buy a farm for himself and his fiancée, Aimee (Doris Day), but also longs to realize his dream of...
- Romance, Biography, Drama
Ronald Reagan stars as Grover Cleveland Alexander, a former telephone-company worker whose hobby is pitching baseball. Recruited by the Philadelphia Nationals, Alexander rises to stardom while only losing about 200 games over 20 years.
Jul 5, 2017 · Ronald Reagan and Doris Day headline a winning chapter from our national pastime: The Winning Team. Reagan is Grover Cleveland Alexander, the Hall of Fame pitcher whose baseball victories...
Poor health and alcoholism force Grover Cleveland Alexander out of baseball, but through his wife's faithful efforts, he gets a chance for a comeback and redemption.
Purchase The Winning Team on digital and stream instantly or download offline. In one of his finest screen performances, Ronald Reagan stars alongside Doris Day in this moving true biography of baseball great Grover Cleveland Alexander, who fights his way back from a blinding injury.
With the help and support of both Aimee and his old pal Rogers Hornsby (Frank Lovejoy), Alex stages a spectacular comeback, striking out Yankee Tony Lazzeri during the 1926 World Series and leading his team to victory.
