Kenneth Andrew Friedman
Born in Houston, Texas in 1976, Kenneth Andrew Friedman spent his entire childhood in his home city. There he also attended the Episcopal High School, after which he enrolled at Tulane University on a baseball scholarship. Under the example of his father, he also played baseball for the Tulane. He successfully graduated from there with a B.S. in management with a concentration in finance at Tulane's Freeman School of Business.
Kenneth Andrew Friedman serves as the Bear Stearns analyst from 1999 to 2002, followed by a position as an associate in the private equity firm MidMark Capital, in the period from 2002 to 2004. In 2003 he had a meeting with the Rays new owner and during that meeting they decided that they share the same ideas, and concluded that the best solution is to start working together.
Serving as the Director of Baseball Development for the Rays in the period from 2004 to 2005, Kenneth Andrew Friedman took the team to new levels. After their successful season in 2005, he was promoted to the position of Executive Vice President of Baseball Operations and General Manager. His dedication and efforts to improve the team, and gradually rebuild it paid off in 2008 when the Rays made the postseason for the first time in franchise history, and proceeded all the way to the World Series.
Kenneth Andrew Friedman serves as the Bear Stearns analyst from 1999 to 2002, followed by a position as an associate in the private equity firm MidMark Capital, in the period from 2002 to 2004. In 2003 he had a meeting with the Rays new owner and during that meeting they decided that they share the same ideas, and concluded that the best solution is to start working together.
Serving as the Director of Baseball Development for the Rays in the period from 2004 to 2005, Kenneth Andrew Friedman took the team to new levels. After their successful season in 2005, he was promoted to the position of Executive Vice President of Baseball Operations and General Manager. His dedication and efforts to improve the team, and gradually rebuild it paid off in 2008 when the Rays made the postseason for the first time in franchise history, and proceeded all the way to the World Series.
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- DirectorRon SheltonStarsKevin CostnerSusan SarandonTim RobbinsA fan who has an affair with one minor-league baseball player each season meets an up-and-coming pitcher and the experienced catcher assigned to him.
- DirectorPhil Alden RobinsonStarsKevin CostnerJames Earl JonesRay LiottaIowa farmer Ray Kinsella is inspired by a voice he can't ignore to pursue a dream he can hardly believe. Supported by his wife, Ray begins the quest by turning his ordinary cornfield into a place where dreams can come true.
- DirectorKen BurnsStarsRoger AngellRed BarberThomas BoswellAmerica and the world are seeing more changes than at any time in history. And so is baseball.
- DirectorArmando IannucciStarsJulia Louis-DreyfusAnna ChlumskyTony HaleSelina attends a healthy-eating event at Camden Yards with some grumpy fast-food executives, where she also confides a secret to Amy. Mike holds a press briefing for some local news pals. Amy and Dan are forced to entertain elementary-school children.
- DirectorYûdai YamaguchiStarsTak SakaguchiAtsushi ItôHideo SakakiBattlefield Baseball is a tough game--it doesn't end until all the members on the opposing team are dead. In this game the Gedo High team is composed of blue-faced zombies, and their opponents on the Seido High team know they don't have a chance at beating them unless they can bring back a star pitcher who has a lethal pitch called the Super Tornado, but who has hung up his cleats and has no desire to return to the game.
- DirectorKen BurnsStarsGrover Cleveland AlexanderRoger AngellAdam ArkinIn the period 1930-40, the Depression had a major impact on the game of baseball. Many teams were nearing bankruptcy with attendance dwindling and fan interest at its lowest ebb. The owners introduced many innovations in an attempt to revive interest and attendance including the All Star game. Night games were introduced in 1935 and the Hall of Fame opened in Cooperstown in 1939 on the mythical 100th anniversary of creation of the game. The sport still provided its heroes however. Babe Ruth was larger than life and in 1930 signed an $80,000 a year contract; his teammate Lou Gehrig had become the best hitter in the AL. Barnstorming black teams played white teams regularly and had an entertaining pre-game warm-up routine dubbed shadow ball. The Negro leagues came into its own and drew huge crowds. It had its own stars such as Satchel Paige, one of the greatest pitchers in all of baseball, and catcher Josh Gibson it's greatest hitter. By the end of the decade, the Babe's career was over, Gehrig had retired due to ALS and professional baseball was still segregated.
- DirectorKen BurnsStarsRoger AngellJohn ChancellorBob CostasAmericans are on the move. Moving to the suburbs. Moving across the country. They are, it seems, restless. Of course, if you're a baseball fan in New York, you don't want to move. You're in baseball heaven.
- DirectorSeymour KneitelJack EhretStarsEddie LawrenceAbner the baseball tells us how he came to be in the Baseball Hall Of Fame.
- DirectorMannie DavisStarsSid RaymondGandy Goose and his friend Sourpuss take on the Mexican League Bulls in a baseball game to end all baseball games.
- DirectorBenjamin KujawskiStarsJean BachMaryette BralyTom BurkaThe Great American Pastime meets The Great American outdoors in the latest film from director Ben Kujawski, an 18 minute comedy short about a dysfunctional baseball league that plays baseball in the woods...you know...with the trees in the way. Travel back in time to 1997 with self-proclaimed extreme sportsman Gary Cozmus as he leads his team the Hutton Sasquatches in a championship game of WOODS BASEBALL.
- DirectorBrett Ryan BonowiczStarsChris ShieldsTom MyersChris LearyJoe Glory, a local baseball player searches for reasons to keep going after he loses a loved one in a sudden accident.
- DirectorKen BurnsStarsGrover Cleveland AlexanderAdam ArkinRed BarberBefore and after World War I, a steady stream of immigrants lands on the shores of America. They want instantly to become American. To pursue the American dream. To play the American game.
- DirectorPaul CroshawStarsDennis PragerPaul CroshawMatthew BarrBaseball, Dennis and the French tells the story of Paul Croshaw, longtime liberal activist, who amazed his family, friends and even himself by converting to Christianity after years of listening to nationally syndicated radio host Dennis Prager.
- DirectorBilly MasonStarsBilly MasonOrin JacksonGloria SwansonBill and Pen Points arrive in a new town being thrown from a boxcar. Bill leaves Pen to go to the ball game. A lunatic comes up and hands him money, which Bill decides to use for clothes. Pen Points finds a detective badge and decides to become a detective. Bill goes to the ball game, meets an heiress is accused of theft and taken to jail. It was a mistake, for the girl finds her purse. She withdraws her charge and asks Bill to see her home. Bill meets her father and mother. Pen Points decides to get revenge. Bill leaves the home of the girl, watched by Pen Points, who decides to tell the girl he is crazy. The girl faints at the news. Bill gets a contract from the manager of the ball team. Pen Points arrests Bill, takes him to the lunatic asylum and they put Bill in a padded cell.
- DirectorKenneth EngChiben Academy is a private, powerhouse baseball academy led by Japan's most legendary tough-as-nails coach, Takashima-kantoku. Over 35 years, Takashima has led his teams to Koshien a record 21 times, and won 3 National titles. Through extensive interviews we reveal the mindset of the man many Japanese consider a "living Samurai". His training regimen focuses not on technique, but rather on developing fighting spirit . In blistering heat or driving rain, the team trains at least 8 hours a day, 360 days a year. At Chiben, two young recruits, Maeda and Hashimoto, explain their lives as aspiring professional players. They have chosen to put aside their education and their families in pursuit of their baseball dreams. But they can't go pro unless they make it to Koshien. The Chiben Cheer Squad is also legendary throughout Japan, and their senior leader, Furukawa, explains why they too must train so hard. Whenever Chiben plays a game, they bring the cheer squad, the brass band, cheerleaders, and the entire school (one thousand strong). Chiben enters the Wakayama tournament as defending champions and coasts through their first few games. But in the world of high school baseball, there are no "sure things". Tennoji is one of the top public schools in Osaka, and students must pass a rigorous exam to get in. Their baseball coach, Masa-sensei, explains how high school baseball will train his students' hearts for life outside baseball. All the same, everybody dreams of Koshien. With such an intense focus on academics, baseball is squeezed into the early morning or late afternoon. They do not have the funding or the scholarships to recruit players, so their chances of making it to Koshien are microscopic. They have not made it to Koshien since 1949. Nevertheless, they practice year-round, six days a week -- before and after school hours -- as well as during vacations, with financial support from their alumni. Senior third baseman Daisuke wakes up at 4 a.m. to travel to morning practice, with lunch from his mom and a ride to the station from dad. Maeda, the team's senior captain, faces great pressure not only as leader, but also as the team's best hitter and ace pitcher. Maeda's father skips work to see his games. Haruki has worked hard and shown improvement for three years, but isn't a great player. When it is time for the team to be announced, Haruki faces the prospect of watching from the stands as his last chance to play in the tournament slips away. Manager-girl Misaki explains her role and gives insight into the role of women in the male-dominated world of high school baseball. Tennoji enters the Osaka summer tournament - Japan's toughest - where 190 schools compete for just one spot at Koshien. Feeling the pressure, Tennoji plays hard through adversity when star second-baseman Kadoya breaks his nose at practice and can't play. But for Tennoji, Koshien is an impossible dream...or is it?
- StarsSam HairstonRichard KingHilton SmithFootage of Reece 'Goose' Tatum and other players, taken prior to a game between the Indianapolis Clowns and the Kansas City Monarchs.
- DirectorJamie MitchellDan PovenmireDale CaseStarsToran CaudellJamil Walker SmithMayim BialikIn '6th Grade Girls', Arnold and Gerald are invited to a school dance by two girls to make their boyfriends jealous. / In 'The Baseball', Mickey Kalin is Arnold's favorite player and is going to retire and Arnold wants to go to his last game.
- 2005–200921mTV-PG7.5 (216)TV EpisodeDirectorAli LeRoiStarsTerry CrewsTichina ArnoldTequan RichmondChris is stuck between a rock and a hard place when he has to make a decision about going to a baseball game with Julius and Drew or go to the movies with Tasha. Rochelle forgets to mail Tonya's letter to the Billy Ocean fan club. Rochelle's brother, Michael asks Vanessa out on a date.
- 2003–201522mTV-146.3 (805)TV EpisodeDirectorJames WiddoesStarsAshton KutcherJon CryerAmber TamblynAlan lets Lyndsey's boyfriend Larry set him up on a date, while Walden offers to help Nicole with her software project, so that she will have the time to date him.
- DirectorHugh WilsonStarsGary SandyGordon JumpLoni AndersonAs he covers all the news including sports, Les unilaterally accepts a $200 wager from Clark Callahan, station manager at WPIG, on a co-ed slo-pitch game between the two radio stations. Les, who never played any sports, including softball, when he was growing up, he stuck inside taking violin lessons instead, sees the game and the challenge as a rite of passage he never went through but should have as a child. No one else at the station wants to play, largely because they don't want to lose as, unaware to Les, WPIG plays in a city league and plays well. But a series of statements leads to the staff changing their minds and agreeing to defend WKRP's honor on the mound. As sports director, Les still wants to lead the team, including pitch, but quickly learns he is way out of his depth. And despite having played in college, Mr. Carlson shows that his softball prowess doesn't live up to the hype that surrounded him. Although they do devise ways to keep the game close, both Mr. Carlson and Les will literally and figuratively have to step up to plate if WKRP has any hope of winning. That task is all the more difficult as all Les can hear in his head is himself playing the violin, which, to him, is the antithesis of what he is now trying to achieve.
- 2003–201522mTV-148.3 (1.4K)TV EpisodeDirectorLee AronsohnStarsCharlie SheenJon CryerAngus T. JonesChelsea is jealous when Charlie's ex fiancée, Mia, calls him--perhaps rightfully so. Meanwhile, Judith goes into labor, Herb is incapacitated, and Alan runs into his ex-girlfriend and receptionist at the hospital.
- DirectorKen BurnsStarsRoger AngellAdam ArkinArthur AsheIn Europe, in the Pacific, on the homefront, both African-Americans and whites fight to make the world safe for democracy. When the world ends, Major League Baseball becomes, in fact, what it has always claimed to be: the national pastime.
- DirectorMichael WranovicsStarsMarty AppelBarry BondsPatrick HayashiThe absurd true story of the legal battle over the "Million-Dollar Baseball." Barry Bonds' record setting 73rd home run ball sparks a melee in the stands at Pac Bell Park in San Francisco. One guy caught the ball, another guy ended up with it. Who is the rightful owner? The lawyers can't agree; the fans can't agree; even the wisened professors of property law can't agree. This is a story documenting the hilarious lengths to which someone will go for a baseball, and the few fans that will put their lives on hold for years, staking everything on one judge's decision.
- DirectorKen BurnsStarsRoger AngellAdam ArkinPhilip BoscoIn 1894, a sportwriter named Byron Bancroft "Ban" Johnson takes over a struggling minor league - the Western League - and turns it into a financial success.
- StarsDarryl StrawberryMike VeeckJack MorrisAn FX Network television documentary series that followed the 1996 St. Paul Saints, a minor league baseball team in the independent Northern League.
- DirectorKen BurnsStarsGrover Cleveland AlexanderRoger AngellAdam ArkinThe 1920s begin with America trying to recover from World War I and baseball trying to recover from the scandal of the 1919 World Series.
- DirectorJohn WatersStarsPete SmithEddie BakerJack 'Tiny' LipsonHighlights the odd 1930s fad of playing baseball while riding donkeys.
- DirectorBarry LevinsonStarsRobert RedfordRobert DuvallGlenn CloseA middle-aged unknown comes seemingly out of nowhere to become a legendary baseball player with almost supernatural talent.
- DirectorTex AveryStarsPinto ColvigWilliam HannaLeone Le DouxA series of visual gags about baseball. One running gag has an angry fan screaming "Kill the ump!" Be careful what you wish for.....
- DirectorFred SchepisiStarsTom SelleckKen TakakuraAya TakanashiJack Elliot, once a great baseball player, is forced to play in Japan where his brash, egotistical ways cause friction with his new teammates and friends.
- StarsWesley FricksBob CostasOne hundred years in the making, the 'Major League Baseball All-Century Team' was an all-time roster chosen from the more than 15,000 men who played Major League Baseball in the 20th Century.
- StarsWilliam GarwoodMarguerite SnowMiss Street's Seminary for young girls has a very ambitious class of pupils. The young athletes, not content with basketball and tennis, aspire to shine in the great American game, and organize a baseball club. They are so satisfied with themselves that they finally send a challenge to Adair College, which has a crowd of husky young athletes and a club that thinks it amounts to something. When the challenge is received, the boys are first angry, then amused. They decide to accept it, to have fun with the girls. The young women, after some practice, realize that their team, while it may be pretty to look at, is of little real use on the diamond. And the prospect makes them weep. Fortunately for the girls, Jack, the brother of their president, arrives from Harvard. His chum, Jim, is with him. These two young men are baseball stars themselves, and when they are told of the predicament of the girls, they good-naturedly offer to help them out. The University men disguise themselves as girls, act as battery for the young women, and the college boys, who had looked for a laughable victory, are mowed down, inning after inning, because of the work of pitcher Jack and catcher Jim. The other members of the "Girl Team" have nothing to do except to look pretty. When the boy athletes have retired from the field vanquished, the girls reward their battery with one kiss, only one, from each of the other seven players.
- DirectorGerren KeithStarsConrad BainGary ColemanTodd BridgesWhen Sam's little-league baseball-coach quits, Drummond takes over - but Drummond's coaching methods antagonize the other kids' parents. Meanwhile, Willis yearns for an expensive car as his graduation present.
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- DirectorTimothy MarxStarsDanny ArdoinJoe BeimelCasey BlakeIn 2008, the Dodgers celebrated their 50th year in Los Angeles. In that time the Dodgers, and Dodger Stadium specifically, have become a true Bluetopia for their fans; a common passion and sanctuary for the incredibly diverse faces and cultures that make Los Angeles a most remarkable place. Bluetopia weaves the stories of several Dodger fans across the 2008 Dodger season. As the season evolves and ultimately ends with the Dodgers on the threshold of the World Series, lives unfold before us. We meet tattoo artists and attorneys, celebrities and detectives, former inmates and grandmothers, cancer fighters and romantic dreamers. Dodger tradition brings them together as one. Bluetopia goes behind the scenes for the human stories of the team itself. Bluetopia is the story of the powerful and emotional bond between fans and their favorite players; between the world's most diverse city and the team that binds it together. Together they make the most lasting memories of their lives
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- DirectorRob KlugAlicia Tanz-FlaumStarsBob SimonJean de VilliersJohn Kirwan"All Blacks" profiles New Zealand's famous national rugby union team the All Blacks. "The Curse of the Cubs" talks to the Ricketts family about their efforts to turn the Chicago Cubs into a winner. "Mindset" examines research into brain injuries in football and the armed services.
- StarsScott PelleyBob SimonJohn Carlin"Barca" rebroadcasts a segment that looks at the training system behind Barcelona's winning soccer team. "The Curse of the Cubs" rebroadcasts a profile about the Ricketts family about their efforts to turn the Chicago Cubs into a winner. "Master of Motion" rebroadcasts a profile of fitness guru Kelly Starrett who has started a new movement focusing on correct posture and motion in exercise. "GoPro Moment" watches children using an inflatable bag.