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(television series; aired from 9/4/94 - 10/24/94 on FOX)
Bruce Greenwood's only sit-com, this short-lived series took a locker-room
view at a losing baseball team, the Pioneers. Greenwood played Dave Logan, the
womanizing star pitcher, battling age and a long slump with one-liners. Dave was the central character in an ensemble cast that also starred Rose Marie
as the tough owner of the team, Dann Florek as the sour-faced manager (whose
daughter Logan seduces in the pilot), Alexandra Wentworth as the daffy press agent, Joe Rogan as the amusingly arrogant, high-priced star player and Mike Starr (who played Bert in The Incredible Derek episode of Nowhere Man) as Dave's best friend, the overweight and undertalented catcher. Airing on Sundays from 8:30 - 9:00, FOX was unusually harsh on the series and pulled it very suddenly after only seven episodes, even though two more had been filmed. Most reviewers felt the series never equalled the pilot, which was apparently quite different from what was broadcast and featured Greenwood even more prominently, but the show had a good cast of well-written characters and was simply not given a chance to settle in. The series was filmed at a real baseball park - Orange County Stadium in Anaheim - and aired during the much publicized baseball strike of 1994. Although it disappeared quickly, the final episode (My Name is Hard B.) was Greenwood's favorite and featured Dave's affair with a wacky sports writer.
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