The Golden Bachelor

baseball phenomenon appeared to be impossible.

His pastor father (Dennis Quaid) hoped his son will follow him into the ministry. Rickey’s career goal, though, is to be the best hitter in pro baseball. “You can’t play baseball!” bellows his father. “You’re gonna get ridiculed and wind up with an injury that you’ll never get over!”

By high school, the hard work pays off when Hill is able to cast off the cumbersome steel braces. As before, none of his peers can match his prodigious batting skills.

At age 18, he has a chance to try out for a major league team, but the opportunity divides his family. His father proclaims that only a miracle could bring Rickey the life he dreams of, but Rickey’s mother (Joelle Carter) explodes, “He’s special! They said he’d never walk and he ran! How many miracles do you need?”

The Briarcliff Entertainment release premieres August 25.