A small time promotor/hustler takes the pint-sized baseball team to Japan for a match against the country's best little league baseball team which sparks off a series of adventures and mishaps the boys come into.

曾经名噪一时的棒球手莫里斯（Billy Bob Thornton 比利•鲍伯•松顿 饰）因攻击裁判而被禁赛，他从此沉溺酒精，自甘堕落。在律师丽兹（Marcia Gay Harden 玛西亚•盖•哈登 饰）的游说和金钱诱惑下，莫里斯重出江湖，只不过他所担任的是某少年棒球队的教练。
话说这真是一支惨不忍睹的球队，这群12岁的孩子领莫里斯头痛不已：好吃成性的小胖子、好斗暴躁的小矮子、备受歧视的外籍人、运动神经超差的笨蛋，甚至还有坐着轮椅的小孩。摆在莫里斯面前的似乎是一个不可能的任务……
本片荣获2006年青年艺人大奖最佳表演奖（所有小演员）。

An aging, down-on-his-luck ex-minor leaguer coaches a team of misfits in an ultra-competitive California little league.

In the winter of 1982, a twelve-man research team at a remote Antarctic research station discovers an alien buried in the snow for over 100,000 years. Soon unfrozen, the form-changing creature wreaks havoc, creates terror... and becomes one of them.