when i was a kid i wanted to to see the video "bad news bears" about baseball! i could not. so now i read a summary and disover it was a three part series.
i feel that summary is in a bad order. instead i changed the order of the summary and all the details are already in the video not mine.
disclaimer: the ideas are already in the video, not mine altho i added my "interpretation" based on the events which might be wrong because i did not see the video but i only read a bad summary.
title: "bad news bears" 1/3 [first "third" of the series before second third in 1977 and final 1978. later in 2005 another version was published], 1976
introd. the BEARS is a new team added to the youth league [leag]. a lawsuit forced the leag to allow weak players. hence the kids who were rejected from other teams, are assigned to the bears. some are: a near-sighted kid who wanted to be a pitcher, an overweight kid who cannot run but could be a catcher, a dreamy fan of Hank Aaron and more. the new team's coach is Morris Buttermaker=b (Walter Matthau) who was a minor-league baseball player.
The bears play the opening game. they cannot even achieve one "out". when the score reaches 26 to 0 coach b forfeits the game.
coach b recruits 12-year-old Amanda Whurlizer (Tatum O'Neal), who does not want to play. he wants her because she is a skilled pitcher who he trained before she quit. the Bears start winning games and even reach the league-championship game. they will face Yankees, coached by aggressive, overly-competitive Roy Turner (Vic Morrow). tat will be a challenging game. can they beat the yankees?
SPOILER ALERT
a summary of the championship game and the conclusion, for those who LIKE MYSELF, cannot rent the video.
spoilers: coach t shouts directing his team that they should have "no mercy" so one yankees batter moves to get hit by the ball, [for going to first base]. later the yankees are in the field. Joey [Turner's son] is Yankees pitcher. coach T orders his son to "walk" the Bears best hitter, to prevent a good hit and limit only first base. Joey wants to try "strike-out" with good pitches. first Joey obeys with a bad pitch near Engelberg's face. coach Turner goes to the mound and slaps his son for being hazardous. [this is bad he should have punished his son differently and also swapped pitchers.]
next Joey has a new revenge he pitches a good one and Engelberg hits a "ground ball." it rolls back to Joey. he holds it, instead of throwing it to the base-men as revenge against his father's slap. Engelberg has time to run all around to score home-run.
Joey walks to his pa and drops the ball at pa's feet.
coach b is now less pressured because the good yankee's pitcher left and also the bears have a point. he swaps players giving everyone a chance to play. they work as a team keeping the yankees at 7 points and even reach 3 points.
the new yankees pitcher walks 2 bears. with the score 7 to 3 the next player "loads the bases" with a smart tactic: a bunt. if the BEARS get a home-run now they would be tying a four point difference 7-7.
the batter hits far and the bears run... scoring a point, then another... then a third and... the last runner [who was this hitter] gets "out". this ends the game. final score yankees 7 to 6.
conclusion: coach Buttermaker tells them they had a great season and that they can spray each other with his beers. The Bears cheer. even Lupus overcomes his chronic shyness enough to yell at the winners "Wait 'til next year!".
the bears shake the cans and spray beers on each other. this celebration is as great as if they won the championship game.
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