Long Gone (film)
1987 television film directed by Martin Davidson
Long Gone is a 1987 baseball film by HBO that is based on Paul Hemphill's 1979 book of the same name. The television film was directed by Martin Davidson and starred William Petersen, Virginia Madsen, and Dermot Mulroney. Historic McKechnie Field, located in Bradenton, Florida, was the location for many of the film's scenes. Outside North America, the film was released as Stogies.
Plot
The Tampico Stogies are a last-place baseball team based in Tampico, Florida. The team competes in the lowest-level (Class D) professional Gulf Coast league during the summer of 1957. The team is unaffiliated with a major league franchise; so, it must sign and pay all of its own players without any financial support outside of the team's owners.
The Stogies are owned by a pair of corrupt and scheming local Tampico businessmen, Hale Buchman and his son, Hale Buchman Jr. They refer to themselves as sports moguls, despite the team being heavily mortgaged.
Their best player and manager is an aging Cecil "Stud" Cantrell, a hard-drinking, hard-playing, and hard-loving man's man of an indeterminate age nearing 40.
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