A Winner Never Quits
| A Winner Never Quits | |
|---|---|
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| Genre | Biography Drama Family Sport |
| Written by | Burt Prelutsky |
| Directed by | Mel Damski |
| Starring | Keith Carradine Mare Winningham Dennis Weaver Fionnula Flanagan Huckleberry Fox |
| Theme music composer | Dana Kaproff |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Daniel H. Blatt Robert Singer |
| Producers | James Keach Lynn Raynor |
| Production locations | Chattanooga, Tennessee Long Beach, California Los Angeles |
| Cinematography | Joseph F. Biroc |
| Editor | Michael A. Stevenson |
| Running time | 96 min. |
| Production companies | Columbia Pictures Television Sony Pictures Television |
| Original release | |
| Network | ABC |
| Release | April 14, 1986 |
A Winner Never Quits is a 1986 television film based on the true story of baseball player Pete Gray, the first one-armed man ever to play major league baseball, hired in 1943 as a "freak attraction" and wartime morale-booster by the Memphis Chicks, Class-A minor league ball club.
Though a success, Gray maintains a tough, defensive veneer, which is softened only by the love of his life Annie and the adulation of baseball fan Nelson Gary Jr., who has also lost an arm (and who would, in real life, become a top minor-league ballplayer himself). With the war depleting big-league baseball's manpower in 1945, Pete Gray finally achieves his goal of entering the Majors when he is hired by the St. Louis Browns.