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The film opens with "Alex" (Reagan) as a young man in rural Nebraska, working as a telephone lineman, in love with girl next door Aimee (Day). While Alex talks about buying a farm and settling down with Aimee, his true passion is baseball. He eventually gets a job pitching for a minor league team, which brings him to the notice of the Philadelphia Phillies, who bring him up for his big-league debut in 1911.
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The film opens with "Alex" (Reagan) as a young man in rural Nebraska, working as a telephone lineman, lineman and in love with girl {{girl next door door}} Aimee (Day). While Alex he talks about buying a farm and settling down with Aimee, his true passion is -- you guessed it -- baseball. He eventually gets a job pitching for a minor league team, which soon brings him to the notice attention of the Philadelphia Phillies, who bring call him up for his big-league debut in 1911.
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''The Winning Team'' is a 1952 film directed by Lewis Sailer, starring UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan and Creator/DorisDay.
It is a heavily fictionalized biography of Hall of Fame Major League Baseball pitcher [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Cleveland_Alexander Grover Cleveland Alexander]]. The film opens with Alexander as a young man in rural Nebraska, working as a telephone lineman, in love with girl next door Aimee (Day). While Alex talks about buying a farm and settling down with Aimee, his true passion is baseball. Alexander gets a job pitching for a minor league team, which brings him to the notice of the Philadelphia Phillies, who bring up Alexander for his big-league debut in 1911.
Alexander's career is interrupted by a freak accident when he is hit in the head by a throw while running the bases. He is afflicted with double vision which threatens to end his baseball career, but he recovers and returns to the game. His medical problems worsen when, after serving in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, he starts to suffer from fainting spells (in RealLife, it was epilepsy). His epilepsy leads Alexander to self-medicate with alcohol, which leads to alcoholism that threatens to drive him from the game for good. It falls to Aimee to bring her husband back from the brink.
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''The Winning Team'' is a 1952 film directed by Lewis Sailer, starring UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan and
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* TimePassesMontage: Much of Alexander's career with the Phillies is covered by Aimee pasting clippings in a scrapbook.
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* TimePassesMontage: Much of Alexander's career with the Phillies is covered by Aimee pasting clippings in a scrapbook.scrapbook.
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It is a heavily factionalized biography of Hall of Fame Major League Baseball pitcher [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Cleveland_Alexander Grover Cleveland Alexander]]. The film opens with Alexander as a young man in rural Nebraska, working as a telephone lineman, in love with girl next door Aimee (Day). While Alex talks about buying a farm and settling down with Aimee, his true passion is baseball. Alexander gets a job pitching for a minor league team, which brings him to the notice of the Philadelphia Phillies, who bring up Alexander for his big-league debut in 1911.
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It is a heavily factionalized fictionalized biography of Hall of Fame Major League Baseball pitcher [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Cleveland_Alexander Grover Cleveland Alexander]]. The film opens with Alexander as a young man in rural Nebraska, working as a telephone lineman, in love with girl next door Aimee (Day). While Alex talks about buying a farm and settling down with Aimee, his true passion is baseball. Alexander gets a job pitching for a minor league team, which brings him to the notice of the Philadelphia Phillies, who bring up Alexander for his big-league debut in 1911.
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* AmusementPark: Luna Park in Coney Island, where Aimee finally tracks Grover down, working as a sideshow attraction.
* BigGame: A winner-take-all Game 7 of the 1926 World Series. Alexander is sent to the mound in the 7th to close it out.
* DrowningMySorrows: Alexander first starts drinking after getting the bad news about his fainting spells and how they are endangering his career.
* FallenOnHardTimesJob: Alexander hits bottom when he's a sideshow attraction at a carnival, answering questions from the audience, occasionally getting into fights over offensive questions.
* DrowningMySorrows: Alexander first starts drinking after getting the bad news about his fainting spells and how they are endangering his career.
* FallenOnHardTimesJob: Alexander hits bottom when he's a sideshow attraction at a carnival, answering questions from the audience, occasionally getting into fights over offensive questions.
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* SleepingSingle: Played with. In the scene where Grover wakes up at night and realizes that his double vision has gone, it's clear that he and Aimee are in the same bed, but the film is carefully shot so that we can't ''see'' them in the same bed. As Grover is looking out the window at the moon, the shot is blocked so that his body obscures Aimee's. As he gets up, the camera sweeps across so fast that we can barely see Doris Day. Only after he's gone from the room does the camera show Aimee on the other side of the bed.
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* SleepingSingle: Played with. In the scene where Grover wakes up at night and realizes that his double vision has gone, it's clear that he and Aimee are in the same bed, but the film is carefully shot so that we can't ''see'' them in the same bed. As Grover is looking out the window at the moon, the shot is blocked so that his body obscures Aimee's. As he gets up, the camera sweeps across so fast that we can barely see Doris Day. Only after he's gone from the room does the camera show Aimee on the other side of the bed.bed.
* SpinningPaper: Many newspapers fly at the screen to narrate Alexander's career. Near the end when he's signed with the Cardinals, one of them actually spins.
* TimePassesMontage: Much of Alexander's career with the Phillies is covered by Aimee pasting clippings in a scrapbook.
* SpinningPaper: Many newspapers fly at the screen to narrate Alexander's career. Near the end when he's signed with the Cardinals, one of them actually spins.
* TimePassesMontage: Much of Alexander's career with the Phillies is covered by Aimee pasting clippings in a scrapbook.
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* SleepingSingle: Played with. In the scene where Grover wakes up at night and realizes that his double vision has gone, it's clear that he and Aimee are in the same bed, but the film is carefully shot so that we can't ''see'' them in the same bed. As Grover is looking out the window at the moon, the shot is blocked so that his body obscures Aimee's. As he gets up, the camera sweeps across so fast that we can barely see Doris Day. Only after he's gone from the room does the camera show Aimee on the other side of the bed.
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''The Winning Team'' is a 1952 film directed by Lewis Sailer, starring UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan and Creator/DorisDay.
It is a heavily factionalized biography of Hall of Fame Major League Baseball pitcher [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Cleveland_Alexander Grover Cleveland Alexander]]. The film opens with Alexander as a young man in rural Nebraska, working as a telephone lineman, in love with girl next door Aimee (Day). While Alex talks about buying a farm and settling down with Aimee, his true passion is baseball. Alexander gets a job pitching for a minor league team, which brings him to the notice of the Philadelphia Phillies, who bring up Alexander for his big-league debut in 1911.
Alexander's career is interrupted by a freak accident when he is hit in the head by a throw while running the bases. He is afflicted with double vision which threatens to end his baseball career, but he recovers and returns to the game. His medical problems worsen when, after serving in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, he starts to suffer from fainting spells (in RealLife, it was epilepsy). His epilepsy leads Alexander to self-medicate with alcohol, which leads to alcoholism that threatens to drive him from the game for good. It falls to Aimee to bring her husband back from the brink.
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* AnswerCut: Glasheen, the minor-league manager trying to get Alexander to join his team, says "Make up your mind, boy!" The film cuts to Alexander in uniform, pitching.
* ArtisticLicenseHistory: ''Very'' heavily fictionalized.
** A loudspeaker has Alexander facing off in a game against Christy Mathewson after Alexander gets back from the war. Mathewson's last game was in 1916.
** A radio announcer says the St. Louis Cardinals finished "at the bottom of the second division" in 1925. In actuality the Cardinals went 77-76 and finished 4th in an eight-team league.
** The movie has the Cardinals acquiring Alexander before the 1926 season began, after Aimee asks Cardinal manager Rogers Hornsby for a favor. In reality, Alexander started the 1926 season with the Cubs and was sold to the Cardinals in June.
** The movie has Alexander ending the 1926 World Series with a strikeout. In RealLife, the series had quite a different ending, maybe the weirdest World Series end of all time: with the Yankees trailing by a run, Babe Ruth drew a walk with two out in the 9th, only to get thrown out attempting to steal second base.
** In real life, all the depressing things that happen to Alexander in the movie--having to take a job pitching with the House of David barnstorming team, living in poverty, having to appear as a carnival sideshow attraction--actually happened after his major league career ended in 1930. (And Aimee divorced him.)
* BasedOnATrueStory: An opening title card says "This is the true story of Grover Cleveland Alexander", even though it really isn't.
* ImpairmentShot: Many, first double vision effects after Alexander is beaned by a throw, then a shimmering effect on the screen when he's battling dizzy spells.
* ItWillNeverCatchOn: As Alexander and Aimee climb into the back of a coughing, sputtering old jalopy on their wedding day, one old farmer says "Them automobiles is just a fad!"
* SleepingSingle: Played with.
It is a heavily factionalized biography of Hall of Fame Major League Baseball pitcher [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Cleveland_Alexander Grover Cleveland Alexander]]. The film opens with Alexander as a young man in rural Nebraska, working as a telephone lineman, in love with girl next door Aimee (Day). While Alex talks about buying a farm and settling down with Aimee, his true passion is baseball. Alexander gets a job pitching for a minor league team, which brings him to the notice of the Philadelphia Phillies, who bring up Alexander for his big-league debut in 1911.
Alexander's career is interrupted by a freak accident when he is hit in the head by a throw while running the bases. He is afflicted with double vision which threatens to end his baseball career, but he recovers and returns to the game. His medical problems worsen when, after serving in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, he starts to suffer from fainting spells (in RealLife, it was epilepsy). His epilepsy leads Alexander to self-medicate with alcohol, which leads to alcoholism that threatens to drive him from the game for good. It falls to Aimee to bring her husband back from the brink.
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!!Tropes:
* AnswerCut: Glasheen, the minor-league manager trying to get Alexander to join his team, says "Make up your mind, boy!" The film cuts to Alexander in uniform, pitching.
* ArtisticLicenseHistory: ''Very'' heavily fictionalized.
** A loudspeaker has Alexander facing off in a game against Christy Mathewson after Alexander gets back from the war. Mathewson's last game was in 1916.
** A radio announcer says the St. Louis Cardinals finished "at the bottom of the second division" in 1925. In actuality the Cardinals went 77-76 and finished 4th in an eight-team league.
** The movie has the Cardinals acquiring Alexander before the 1926 season began, after Aimee asks Cardinal manager Rogers Hornsby for a favor. In reality, Alexander started the 1926 season with the Cubs and was sold to the Cardinals in June.
** The movie has Alexander ending the 1926 World Series with a strikeout. In RealLife, the series had quite a different ending, maybe the weirdest World Series end of all time: with the Yankees trailing by a run, Babe Ruth drew a walk with two out in the 9th, only to get thrown out attempting to steal second base.
** In real life, all the depressing things that happen to Alexander in the movie--having to take a job pitching with the House of David barnstorming team, living in poverty, having to appear as a carnival sideshow attraction--actually happened after his major league career ended in 1930. (And Aimee divorced him.)
* BasedOnATrueStory: An opening title card says "This is the true story of Grover Cleveland Alexander", even though it really isn't.
* ImpairmentShot: Many, first double vision effects after Alexander is beaned by a throw, then a shimmering effect on the screen when he's battling dizzy spells.
* ItWillNeverCatchOn: As Alexander and Aimee climb into the back of a coughing, sputtering old jalopy on their wedding day, one old farmer says "Them automobiles is just a fad!"
* SleepingSingle: Played with.
