If you adopted together with Birmingham-Southern College’s operate to the Division III Higher education Earth Collection, you probably experienced the thought at a person time or another that the Panthers’ heroics were the things of motion pictures.
Thankfully, the movie industry agrees with you.
A documentary movie crew followed Birmingham-Southern’s baseball staff about for the past two months of the school’s existence, Blue Eyes Amusement executive producer Jason Sciavicco explained to Kennington Smith III of The Athletic Wednesday. Per Sciavicco, the company will set jointly a aspect size-documentary “as shortly as feasible.”
“The tale was so pure,” Sciavicco mentioned. “Here’s a group of children taking part in D-III baseball, and their university is closing. They had been 13-10 when they observed out their college was closing (in March). How simple would it have been to mail it in? Instead, they completed the season 25-4 and went on a run.”
The ultimate force landed the Panthers in the Division III Higher education Planet Collection, which commenced the working day the century-previous liberal arts faculty formally shut down. Just after shedding 7-5 to Salve Regina in the to start with spherical, Birmingham-Southern rallied previous Randolph-Macon 9-7 with a walk-off residence operate.
The Panthers fell 11-10 to Wisconsin-Whitewater in the second round on nonetheless an additional stroll-off property operate, but their tale appears destined to reside on in baseball lore.
