The broadcast of Spaceman: A Baseball Odyssey on Saturday, May 8 marks the first in a series of Reel Hardball Regional Airs on Comcast SportsNet.Reel Hardball films will air across multiple Comcast RSNs in major markets during the spring and summer of 2010.  Stay tuned for forthcoming announcements about the the Reel Hardball ball parks tour this summer, and don’t miss Cobb Field: A Day at the Ballpark on CSNE next Sat (05/15) and Sun (05/16).

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Cobb Field: A Day at the Ballpark explores the world of Minor League Baseball via twenty-four hours in the life of Cobb Field, a sixty-year old ballpark in Billings, Montana and the home of the Pioneer League Billings (Montana) Mustangs, an affiliate of the Cincinnati Reds.  Shot in 2007 during the last weeks of Cobb Field’s existence, filmmaker Craig Lindvahl followed players and former players – including Jim Kaat Gary Redus coaches, umpires, announcers, fans, groundskeepers and many others. The film won three Mid-America Emmy Awards in 2008. Kaat, an MLB Network analyst, was recently nominated for a Sports Emmy Award for Outstanding Sports Personality.

Holy Land Hardball, Cobb Field: A Day at the Ballpark, and Spaceman: A Baseball Odyssey, are part of the Reel Hardball franchise – a series that matches the spirit of independent filmmaking with a global passion for the game of baseball.  Reel Hardball first aired on MLB Network during January of 2010, and is presented by Golden Corral.

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The Producers of Reel Hardball are pleased to announce the Fungoman as Grand Slam series sponsor.  We promised to help produce a television spot for them, so that they could get the complete benefit from our sponsorship package.

No one said it would be without occupational hazards …

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Jay Ferraro, the Executive Producer of Baseball Digest Live and Gotham Baseball Live, and a columnist for many baseball web sites including Baseball Digest wrote a great piece about Reel Hardball.  Click for the Baseball Digest article.

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