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text: print gappers team photo from every boy needs a hero 
  just in time for the start of the  major league baseball world series wnd films has acquired the fatherson baseball movie every boy needs a hero for immediate release on dvd 
  were confident that hero is a grandslam movie that will build up families across america and restore luster to the game said joseph farah wnd founder and ceo 
  starring burgess jenkins of remember the titans and nashville and gregory alan williams of miracles from heaven this awardwinning movie brings the love of baseball to hearth and home it also features a powerful music soundtrack by threetime grammy winner michael omartian 
  get every boy needs a hero now at the wnd superstore from the producers of alone yet not alone the movie is a powerful tale of restoring and strengthening relationships between fathers and their children 
  according to dr ted baehr founder of movieguide  hero is an excellent movie about god turning a mans heart to his son and a son learning to forgive his father 
  dr baehr added the opening is powerful the ending is heartrending the drama the acting the jeopardy work well throughout the whole movie this is one of the few movies that movieguide can actually say go see it keith harris and nick edwards as wynn and sammy heller 
  hero opens with joe played by burgess jenkins coaching his son davids baseball team the gappers to the state championship seven years later after pursuing his dream job joe returns to town he had left to pursue fame and fortune to support the family his wife hannah is stricken with cancer while david is angry that joe left them after hannahs funeral joe moves back into the house but david remains bitter meanwhile david is coaching the now hapless gappers the team loses more than it wins joe steps in to get other fathers involved with their sons and turn the team of losers into winners hoping this gesture will help joe reconcile with david unfortunately the league rules have softened dramatically making it nearly impossible to train the team properly practice times are limited coaches cant make players take laps around the field everyone gets a participation trophy the beloved american pastime has become so boring that few parents show up for games let alone practices so joe starts his own league to turns things around 
  from the director of isaiah  judgment and the producer of alone not yet alone comes hero a beautiful tale of the significance of the fatherchild relationship thats and set around americas pastime baseball 
  one of the fathers joe pursues for the new league is the warden of the local prison mr redding played by gregory alan williams reddings career mirrors that of joe hes been offered a big job in washington dc like joe hes lured by fame and fortune at the expense of his relationship with his son and family in contrast another gapper teammate has a father whos actually a prison inmate under redding unlike many of the absent fathers outside the prison walls the inmate father has a great desire to practice baseball with his son but he cannot due to prison rules justin miles and burgess jenkins as david and joe finn in the film every boy needs a hero 
  what makes hero particularly compelling today is that it addresses the growing crisis of absentee fathers and its impact on baseball itself 
  watch the trailer 
  washington times reporter bradford richardson wrote in his article study blames absent fathers for decline in black baseball players that the austin institute a texasbased think tank focused on family and societal issues has commissioned a study titled called out at home which shows a correlation between the decline of black fatherhood and the drop in black participation in baseball 
  from the director of isaiah  judgment and the producer of alone not yet alone comes hero a beautiful tale of the significance of the fatherchild relationship thats and set around americas pastime baseball 
  richardson writes 
  kevin stuart executive director of the austin institute said fathers are natural teachers of baseball because it takes two to play catch 
  there is a longstanding connection between fatherhood and baseball mr stuart said pointing to famous fatherson tandems who have played in the major leagues and the prominence of fatherson relationships in popular baseball movies such as field of dreams 
  baseball he said was made to be played by fathers and sons 
  baseball seems to fall somewhere in the middle where whats really necessary or what appears to us to be necessary in order to really improve skills is at least one other person deeply and personally committed on a regular basis to working with you mr stuart said 
  anecdotal evidence seems to corroborate the studys connection between fatherhood and baseball 
  famous fatherson tandems  including ken griffey sr and ken griffey jr prince fielder and cecil fielder and tony gwynn sr and tony gwynn jr  have talked about how the game was handed down from one generation to the next 
  hero received a powerful endorsement from renowned christian author stormie omartian 
  for such a time as this hero is an important movie about the estranged relationship between a father and his son who learn how to reconcile using faith and baseball farah said 
  baehr concluded hero is a wonderful faithfilled sports drama it will touch your heart your mind and your soul gapper team dads from the film every boy needs a hero