As America’s favorite pasttime, kids across the nation and across the world dream of their chance to make it big. There’s a feel to that. There’s a feel to the first time you slide your hand into a glove, the first time you wrap both hands around the bat to feel its weight, that first time you step up to the plate and stare down the pitcher. If you hold on to that hope, the feeling never leaves and that’s why baseball endures.

SEries Outline

This series will focus on areas around the United States and the world that have an enduring love of the game. Small towns where the field stands as a beacon of light on hot summer nights. Urban cities with amazing backdrops and rural fields maintained by a group of neighborhood kids. Each episode will highlight the following:

  • Local Environment: drone shots, buildings, local businesses, signange, meeting areas, parks, fields, etc.

  • Local Teams - Interview player about what they love about where they live and play

  • A day in the life of specific players - there’s always a star or someone with charisma

  • Play a game - a game where we can move freely and start or stop to set up

  • Reenact “feel” shots - cinematic shots with players, equipment and locations

  • Giveback project - as a united team, they will get together to do some sort of community project

HELPER, UTAH

Helper is a town that has endured the ups and downs of the coal industry. A major railway line runs through the center of town. There are vacant and abandoned homes. If you blink you’ll drive right past it on the highway. But at the same time, there is a well maintained field in the heart of the city. Surrounded by towering desert bluffs, the field comes alight on hot summer nights. The townspeople fill the seats to watch local teams battle it for bragging rights.

BHUTAN

High up in the Himalayas between Tibet and India sits the small Buddhist country of Bhutan. The sport of baseball has grown exponentially and an united the youth of the country.

CUBA

Still under communist rule, Cuba embodies how baseball can unite a community even in hard times.