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The Winning Team | |
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Directed by | Lewis Seiler |
Screenplay by | Ted Sherdeman Seeleg Lester Merwin Gerard |
Story by | Seeleg Lester Merwin Gerard |
Produced by | Bryan Foy |
Starring | Doris Day Ronald Reagan Frank Lovejoy |
Cinematography | Sidney Hickox |
Edited by | Alan Crosland Jr. |
Music by | David Buttolph |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Running time | 98 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $1.7 million |
The Winning Team is a 1952 American biographical film starring Ronald Reagan and Doris Day, and directed by Lewis Seiler. It is a fictionalized biography of the life of major league pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander.
It includes Alexander's heroic performance in three games in the 1926 World Series against the New York Yankees, where the seventh inning strikeout of Tony Lazzeri is used as the game-ending, Series-winning pitch.
The film earned an estimated $1.7 million at the North American box office in 1952.[1]