10 Most Irritatingly Improbable Sports Movies

Rookie of the Year came out in the early 90s, when there was this huge trend in kids' movies to have children interact with major sports teams in a substantive way. Henry Rowengartner (played by a teeny tiny Thomas Ian Nicholas of American Pie fame) is an average Chicago kid who breaks his arm, only when he gets the cast taken off, it turns out that he has a super fast pitching arm.

You don't need to be a doctor to question the concept that there is any conceivable way that a preteen with a broken arm would somehow have tendons so screwed up that they would be capable of throwing a fast ball that could strike out major league baseball players. Because by virtue of his magic arm, this kid is allowed to become the starting pitcher for the Chicago Cubs. Now, until last year, you might have thought, "Eh, why not, it can't hurt."

But still, you're really just not generally allowed to put children on professional sports teams like that. (FYI, it turns out that the youngest MLB player was Joe Nuxell who started for the Cincinnati Reds when he was just under 16 years old. But that was during WWII, when there was such a shortage of ball players that they resorted to starting a women's league, or so A League of Their Own has taught us.)

Also, Gary Busey is a professional baseball player in this movie, a notion that one should reject on the face of it.