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Major League: Back to the Minors

Director/Writer:	John Warren
Director of Photography:	Tim Suhrstedt
Editors:	O. Nicholas Brown and Bryan H. Carroll
Music:	Robert Folk
Production Designer:	David Crank
Producer:	James G. Robinson
	Warner Bros.; PG-13; 90 minutes
Release:	4/98
Cast:	Scott Bakula, Thom Barry, Corbin Bernsen, Eric Bruskotter, Jensen Daggett, Walt Goggins and Dennis Haysbert

This sappy sequel to the 1995 Bull Durham rip-off is a major bore. An over-the-hill pitcher (Bakula) takes a job coaching the Minnesota Twin's rag-tag minor-league team and (you guessed it!) turns the hapless ball players into winning heroes.

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