Long Gone (film)

Long Gone is a 1987 baseball film by HBO that is based on Paul Hemphills 1979 book of the same name. The madefortelevision film was directed by Martin Davidson and starred William Petersen, Virginia Madsen, and Dermot Mulroney. A historic stadium in Bradenton, Florida was the location for many scenes. Outside North America, the movie was known as and entitled, Stogies.

Their star player and manager is an aging Cecil Stud Cantrell William Petersen, a harddrinking, hardplaying, and hardloving mans man. Signed out of high school by the St Louis Cardinals, Cantrell was a onetime rookie standout in the organization, but he never made it to the big leagues because of a war injury he sustained in World War II during the Battle of Guadalcanal.At a game against the Crestview Cats in Alabama, Cantrell meets a beautiful young woman just voted Miss Strawberry Blossom of 1957, Dixie Lee Boxx Virginia Madsen. What Cantrell initially intends to be a onenight stand soon develops into a semiserious relationship. ........

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