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New baseball movie filmed at Quad Cities stadium
Apr. 7, 2009 6:21 pm
There's a new movie coming out called "Sugar" that was mostly filmed during the 2007 season at Quad Cities' Modern Woodmen Park. The movie follows a 19-year pitcher from the Dominican Republic as he comes to the United States for the first time, playing for a fictitious team called the Bridgeport Swing. The Bridgeport team wears the uniforms of the old Swing of the Quad Cities, by the way.
The movie has already premiered in New York and Los Angeles and is scheduled for nationwide release April 24. Reviews are very positive, so you might want to go catch it (no pun intended).
Here are links to stories and interviews about the movie on Minor League Baseball's official site:
Algenis Perez Soto as a minor league pitcher from the Dominican Republic playing baseball for the first time in the United States.
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