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[[caption-width-right:325:The Dream of Every 12 Year Old Kid]]
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A 1994 baseball film written by Gregory K. Pincus and directed by Andrew Scheinman. Young 12 year old Billy Heywood (Luke Edwards) is granted control as owner of the Minnesota Twins by his grandfather, who died and who owned the team. Billy initially struggles to relate and find his footing but soon rallies the team into a do or die game to make the playoffs against the Seattle Mariners. Also starred [[Series/{{Thirtysomething}} Timothy Busfield]], [[Film/BeverlyHillsCop John Ashton]], [[Film/GetShorty Dennis Farina]], [[Series/SeventhHeaven Kevin Dunn]], and [[Film/WeekendAtBernies Jonathan Silverman]].
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A 1994 baseball UsefulNotes/{{baseball}} film written by Gregory K. Pincus and directed by Andrew Scheinman. Young 12 year old Billy Heywood (Luke Edwards) is granted control as owner of the [[UsefulNotes/MajorLeagueBaseball Minnesota Twins Twins]] by his grandfather, who died and who owned the team. Billy initially struggles to relate and find his footing but soon rallies the team into a do or die game to make the playoffs against the Seattle Mariners. Also starred [[Series/{{Thirtysomething}} Timothy Busfield]], [[Film/BeverlyHillsCop John Ashton]], [[Film/GetShorty Dennis Farina]], [[Series/SeventhHeaven Kevin Dunn]], and [[Film/WeekendAtBernies Jonathan Silverman]].
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!!Examples of Tropes
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* ShootTheDog: Billy makes the heartbreaking decision to release a struggling veteran he has long idolized. Understandably, the player takes it [[EtTuBrute poorly]].
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* ShootTheDog: Billy makes the heartbreaking decision to release a struggling veteran he has long idolized. Understandably, the player takes it [[EtTuBrute poorly]]. Examined too, in that Billy's struggles to be professional about it only make the player feel even worse.
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* ArtisticLicenseLaw: In real life, the team would be held in a trust or conservatorship on Billy's behalf until he turns 18 years old since most of the duties required for owning a professional sports team are illegal for minors to participate in.
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* BittersweetEnding: A bit of a change from what was typical of kids sports films at the time. [[spoiler: The Twins try their best, but ultimately come up short against the Mariners, with Lou's long center fly being caught by Ken Griffey Jr. and denying the team the home run. Billy decides to retire for a while as manager, citing the intense strain it's put on his personal life and education. But he makes peace with Lou's relationship with his mother, and the team and the audience give him an ovation on his way out, showing their respect for him.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: A bit of a change from what was typical of kids sports films at the time. [[spoiler: The Twins try their best, but ultimately come up short against the Mariners, with Lou's long center fly being caught by Ken Griffey Jr. and denying the team the home run. Billy decides to retire for a while as manager, citing the intense strain it's put on his personal life and education. But he he's still the owner of the team, makes peace with Lou's relationship with his mother, and the team and the audience give him an ovation on his way out, showing their respect for him.]]
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: What happens when a twelve-year-old kid becomes the manager of a baseball team? Even if he's a ChildProdigy who's intellectually equipped to handle it, and even if he does overcome the hurdle of gaining the respect of his underlings, the demands of working what amounts to a full time job quickly start to interfere with his social life and education, and he's not necessarily ''emotionally'' equipped to deal with things like one of the players dating his mom, or having to retire a personal favorite player whose career has peaked. He ultimately steps back, remaining owner, but deciding to grow up a little more before becoming manager again, if at all.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: What happens when a twelve-year-old kid becomes the manager of a baseball team? Even if he's a ChildProdigy who's intellectually equipped to handle it, and even if he does overcome the hurdle of gaining the respect of his underlings, the demands of working what amounts to a full time job quickly start to interfere with his social life and education, and he's not necessarily ''emotionally'' equipped to deal with things like one of the players dating his mom, or having to retire a personal favorite player whose career has peaked. [[spoiler: He ultimately steps back, remaining owner, but deciding to grow up a little more before becoming manager again, if at all.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: A bit of a change from what was typical of kids sports films at the time. [[spoiler: The Twins try their best, but ultimately come up short against the Mariners, with Lou's long center fly being caught by Ken Griffey Jr. and denying the team the home run. Billy decides to retire for a while as manager, citing the intense strain it's put on his personal life and education. But he makes peace with Lou's relationship with his mother, and the team and the audience give him an ovation on his way out, showing their respect for him.]]
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* DownerEnding: A bit of an inversion of what was typical of kids sports films at the time.
* FaceHeelTurn: Ken Griffey Jr. and Randy Johnson were very popular MLB players but were turned into the villains since the Twins had to win or they would miss the playoffs.
* FaceHeelTurn: Ken Griffey Jr. and Randy Johnson were very popular MLB players but were turned into the villains since the Twins had to win or they would miss the playoffs.
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* GradeSchoolCEO: Billy.
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* GradeSchoolCEO: Billy.Billy, because his grandfather left the team to him.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: What happens when a twelve-year-old kid becomes the manager of a baseball team? Even if he's a ChildProdigy who's intellectually equipped to handle it, and even if he does overcome the hurdle of gaining the respect of his underlings, the demands of working what amounts to a full time job quickly start to interfere with his social life and education, and he's not necessarily ''emotionally'' equipped to deal with things like one of the players dating his mom, or having to retire a personal favorite player whose career has peaked. He ultimately steps back, remaining owner, but deciding to grow up a little more before becoming manager again, if at all.
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** The script shows a deep knowledge of both past and present-day baseball anecdotes and strategy that shows the screenwriter ''clearly'' knew the game of baseball.
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* ArtisticLicenseSports: Subverted. Billy and his assistants are well aware of the rule the prevents team owners from also being the manager, but they manage to convince the Commissioner of Baseball to ignore it and allow him to take the job anyway (partly because they can't find a grown man who wants to work for a kid).
** Actually, the rule does say an owner can manage a team if and only if the Commissioner approves, so this is more ShownTheirWork that they got his permission.
** Actually, the rule does say an owner can manage a team if and only if the Commissioner approves, so this is more ShownTheirWork that they got his permission.
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* ShownTheirWork: Major League Baseball rules do prohibit team owners from acting as field managers unless the Commissioner grants explicit permission, so the film devotes screentime to showing Billy and his assistants trying and eventually convincing the Commissioner to do just that because they're having major difficulty finding anyone who would be willing to work for a 12-year-old owner.
