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Mr. Baseball: Production, Reception & Plot

Mr. Baseball is a 1992 American sports comedy film directed by Fred Schepisi, starring Tom Selleck, Ken Takakura, Dennis Haysbert, and Aya Takanashi. Selleck plays a veteran New York Yankees first baseman, Jack Elliot, who is traded to the Chunichi Dragons in Japan and must contend with cultural differences.

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Mr. Baseball topic overview

The analysis highlights Production, Reception and Plot as prominent areas in the source structure around Mr. Baseball.

Related topics
86
Source areas
6
Connected nodes
92
Extracted relationships
138
Related term clusters
20
Bridge connections
92

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Production · 38 topics
Reception · 14 topics
Overview · 11 topics
Plot · 11 topics
Cast · 8 topics
Promotion · 4 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Box office
$20,883,046
Budget
$40 million
Cinematography
Ian Baker
Country
United States
Directed by
Fred Schepisi
Distributed by
Universal Pictures

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Overview

Plot

Cast

Production

Promotion

Reception

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How Mr. Baseball connects Entity context

The extracted context around Mr. Baseball shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Mr. Baseball → American, Banshō-ji, Baseball, CBC TV, Chunichi Dragons, Concepts Graphic Designs, Doug Claybourne, Dragons, Filming, Florida, Fuji Sengen Shrine, Hiroko's, Irinaka, Jack, Jack Elliot, Jack Elliot's, Japan, Kakuozan, Kanayama Station, Kannon Another extracted example is Mr. Baseball → According, Baseball, Complicating, Ed Solomon, Gary Ross, Japan, Japanese, John Junkerman, Kevin Wade, Major League, Matsushita, Monte Merrick, Mr, Schepisi, Theo Pelletier, Tom Selleck, United States, Universal, Universal Studios, When Schepisi. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Mr. Baseball

Top relations

related to Filming · 45
Mr. Baseball → American, Banshō-ji, Baseball, CBC TV, Chunichi Dragons, Concepts Graphic Designs, Doug Claybourne, Dragons, Filming, Florida, Fuji Sengen Shrine, Hiroko's, Irinaka, Jack, Jack Elliot, Jack Elliot's, Japan, Kakuozan, Kanayama Station, Kannon
related to Screenplay · 20
Mr. Baseball → According, Baseball, Complicating, Ed Solomon, Gary Ross, Japan, Japanese, John Junkerman, Kevin Wade, Major League, Matsushita, Monte Merrick, Mr, Schepisi, Theo Pelletier, Tom Selleck, United States, Universal, Universal Studios, When Schepisi
related to Critical reception · 14
Mr. Baseball → ABC, Audiences, Baseball, Bill Diehl, CinemaScore, Clark Gable, Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times, Mr, Oscar, Rotten Tomatoes, Sports Illustrated, Steve Wille, Tom Selleck
related to Box office · 13
Mr. Baseball → Baseball, Despite, Europe, February, Friday, Japan, Mohicans, Mr, North American, October, The Last, The Mighty Ducks, Universal
related to Home media · 13
Mr. Baseball → April, Baseball, Blu-ray, DVD, Goodtimes Home Video, July, June, LaserDisc, March, MCA Universal Home Video, Mr, Universal, VHS
related to By professional players · 6
Mr. Baseball → According, American, Baseball, Japanese, Mr, The New York Times
Edited by · 3
Mr. Baseball → Gary Woodyard, Jeremy Gibbs, Peter Honess
Produced by · 3
Mr. Baseball → Doug Claybourne, Fred Schepisi, Robert Newmyer
Screenplay by · 3
Mr. Baseball → Gary Ross, Kevin Wade, Monte Merrick
Starring · 3
Mr. Baseball → Dennis Haysbert, Ken Takakura, Tom Selleck

Important terminology

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Important terminology

baseball jack film mr uchiyama dragons japan selleck japanese nagoya scenes home filmed american universal team players schepisi tom also

Mr. Baseball relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 138 structured relationships around Mr. Baseball. Examples in this analysis include Mr. Baseball → Box office → $20,883,046 and Mr. Baseball → Budget → $40 million. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Mr. BaseballBox office$20,883,0461.00infobox
Mr. BaseballBudget$40 million1.00infobox
Mr. BaseballCinematographyIan Baker1.00infobox
Mr. BaseballCountryUnited States1.00infobox
Mr. BaseballDirected byFred Schepisi1.00infobox
Mr. BaseballDistributed byUniversal Pictures1.00infobox
Mr. BaseballEdited byPeter Honess1.00infobox
Mr. BaseballEdited byJeremy Gibbs1.00infobox
Mr. BaseballEdited byGary Woodyard1.00infobox
Mr. BaseballLanguagesEnglish1.00infobox
Mr. BaseballLanguagesJapanese1.00infobox
Mr. BaseballMusic byJerry Goldsmith1.00infobox
Mr. BaseballProduced byFred Schepisi1.00infobox
Mr. BaseballProduced byDoug Claybourne1.00infobox
Mr. BaseballProduced byRobert Newmyer1.00infobox
Mr. BaseballProduction companiesOutlaw Productions1.00infobox
Mr. BaseballProduction companiesPacific Artists1.00infobox
Mr. BaseballRelease dateOctober 2, 1992 (1992-10-02)1.00infobox
Mr. BaseballRunning time108 minutes1.00infobox
Mr. BaseballScreenplay byMonte Merrick1.00infobox
Mr. BaseballScreenplay byGary Ross1.00infobox
Mr. BaseballScreenplay byKevin Wade1.00infobox
Mr. BaseballStarringTom Selleck1.00infobox
Mr. BaseballStarringDennis Haysbert1.00infobox
Mr. BaseballStarringKen Takakura1.00infobox
Mr. BaseballStory byTheo Pelletier1.00infobox
Mr. BaseballStory byJohn Junkerman1.00infobox

Related concept clusters Related term clusters

The concept neighborhoods around Mr. Baseball bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Mr, Film and Japanese. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Mr. Baseball
    • Mr
    • Film
    • Japanese
    • Japan
    • Training
    • Player
    • Released
    • Also
    • Tom
    • Universal
    • Selleck
    • Cultural
  • mr. baseball
    • Mr
    • Film
    • Japanese
    • Selleck
    • York
    • Japan
    • New
    • Players
    • Tom
    • Universal
    • Professional
    • Training
  • japanese baseball
    • Team
    • Also
    • Players
    • Universal
    • Mr
    • New
    • Film
    • Japanese
    • Professional
    • Selleck
    • York
    • Japan
  • nippon professional baseball
    • Players
    • Training
    • Mr
    • Nagoya
    • Team
    • Film
    • Japanese
    • Selleck
    • York
    • Japan
    • New
    • Filming
  • expatriate american ballplayers
    • Film
    • York
    • Baseball
    • Japanese
    • Elliot
    • Player
    • New
    • Players
    • Schepisi
    • Tom
    • Jack
    • Nagoya
  • nagoya baseball stadium
    • Filmed
    • Scenes
    • Nagoya
    • Stadium
    • Chunichi
    • Mr
    • Dragons
    • Professional
    • Home
    • Film
    • Japanese
    • Selleck
  • comedy film
    • Japan
    • Players
    • Japanese
    • Dragons
    • Chunichi
    • Scene
    • Also
    • Nagoya
    • Filmed
    • Scenes
    • Cultural
    • Training
  • new york yankees
    • New
    • York
    • Elliot
    • Selleck
    • Japanese
    • Tom
    • American
    • Baseball
    • Jack
    • Cultural
    • Japan
    • Chunichi

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Mr. Baseball, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Mr. Baseball with Production. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Mr. Baseball — Production · splits 54 ⟂ 39
Mr. Baseball — Reception · splits 78 ⟂ 15
Mr. Baseball — Overview · splits 81 ⟂ 12
Mr. Baseball — Plot · splits 81 ⟂ 12
Mr. Baseball — Cast · splits 84 ⟂ 9
Mr. Baseball — Promotion · splits 88 ⟂ 5

Map overview Semantic statistics

Mr. Baseball

Nodes93
Edges92
Triples138
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.021505
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Mr. Baseball to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Production, Reception & Plot, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Mr. Baseball · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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