Barry Pepper and Thomas Jane portray two legendary baseball heroes like they grew up watching them play and play. The supporting cast adds to this film as Jennifer Crystal Foley (Pat Maris), Chris Bauer (Bob Cerv), Anthony Michael Hall (Whitey Ford), and Bruce McGill (Ralph Houk) brilliantly display the up and down emotions of dealing with two players thrust into the limelight of trying to break one of baseball's all time records. Billy Crystal does a masterful job directing this cast to recreate childhood memories of HIS hero (Mantle) and the battle he faces from Maris and his own demons.