*GRFF: Signs of the TimesRated: NR 12+Runtime: 60 Category: Documentary | Sports Starring: Directed By: Don Casper No Passes SUB
Description: Narrated by Richard Dreyfuss, "Signs of the Time" is a baseball documentary featuring interviews with many baseball greats and re-enactments of scenes from old-time baseball games. The film explores the origins of this pivotal innovation and the baseball pioneers that shaped the course of the game and history. William Klem is the most significant umpire of the last century, one of the first umpires inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame, which cast his link to hand signals in bronze. Bill Klem's plaque at Cooperstown gives him credit for the introduction of arm signals indicating strikes and fair or foul balls. William Ellsworth Hoy was profoundly deaf. He developed a system of hand signals whereby his 3rd base coach would indicate whether the pitch was a strike or ball. William "Dummy" Hoy was admired by his teammates, revered by the fans, and went on to become the most celebrated deaf player in the history of big-league baseball. Both of these unique men made significant contributions to the game and each has laid claim to the signs of baseball. But like the origins of the game itself, the genesis of baseball's greatest innovation is steeped in legend and fraught with polarizing opinions. *Subtitles appear throughout the film for accessibility of all audiences. |
