Small-time baseball coach promises his team that if they win the championships he will try out for major league baseball.

Matthau is a grumbling beer-guzzling former minor-league pitcher who gets roped into coaching a band of half-pint misfits somewhat loosely called a team.

A retiring baseball scout, who is beginning to have trouble with his vision, is accompanied by his daughter on his final scouting trip.

When a small-town baseball coach gets the offer of a lifetime from a larger 6A High School, he uproots his family and leaves the only home he's ever known. As a man of faith, he soon faces opposition to his coaching methods from the school superintendent.

A boy, praying for his father's return, and the California Angels, praying for a pennant, join forces and learn to believe that anything is possible.