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A Winner Never Quits is a 1986 television film based on the true story of baseball player Pete Gray, the first one-armed man ever to play major league baseball, hired in 1943 as a "freak attraction" and wartime morale-booster by the Memphis Chicks, Class-A minor league ball club.
Though a success, Gray maintains a tough, defensive veneer, which is softened only by the love of his life Annie and the adulation of baseball fan Nelson Gary Jr., who has also lost an arm (and who would, in real life, become a top minor-league ballplayer himself). With the war depleting big-league baseball's manpower in 1945, Pete Gray finally achieves his goal of entering the Majors when he is hired by the St. Louis Browns.
Original Release
04/13/1986
US Release
04/14/1986
Cast
Name | Character |
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Keith Carradine | Pete Gray |
Mare Winningham | Annie |
G.W. Bailey | Tatum |
Dennis Weaver | Mr. Wyshner |
Huckleberry Fox | Nelson Gary Jr. / Nelson Gary, Jr. |
Jack Kehoe | Bloom |
Fionnula Flanagan | Mrs. Wyshner |
Ed O'Neill | Whitey Wyshner |
Dana Delany | Nora |
Charles Hallahan | Nelson Gary Sr. / Nelson Gary, Sr. |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Keith Carradine | Pete Gray |
Mare Winningham | Annie |
G.W. Bailey | Tatum |
Dennis Weaver | Mr. Wyshner |
Huckleberry Fox | Nelson Gary Jr. / Nelson Gary, Jr. |
Jack Kehoe | Bloom |
Fionnula Flanagan | Mrs. Wyshner |
Ed O'Neill | Whitey Wyshner |
Dana Delany | Nora |
Charles Hallahan | Nelson Gary Sr. / Nelson Gary, Sr. |
Mary Jo Deschanel | Mrs. Gary |
Jeff McCracken | Sheldrake |
Jim Morgan | Hatfield |
David Haid | Henderson |
Brad Sullivan | Taylor |
Lulu Downs | Josie |
Steve Rees | Young Pete Gray |
Andrew Lubeskie | Young Whitey |
Peter Hobbs | McGregor |
J.J. Johnston | Trainer |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Daniel H. Blatt | Executive Producer |
Robert Singer | Executive Producer |
James Keach | Producer |
Pixie Lamppu | Producer |
Frank Pace | Producer |
Lynn Raynor | Producer |