In the summer of 1994, with Major League Baseball ix-nayed by a strike, America’s other pastime captures the nation's attention when hunky hidden talent Ted Whitfield (Ross Patterson) turns from sandlot oddity to bona-fide Wiffle ball phenom. In this shaggy-dog comedy, The Van Nuys Times tracks the hitting star's every bat-bending tantrum as he guns for the home run record and copes with the intoxicating effects of overwhelming success.