Former minor leaguer Morris Buttermaker is a lazy drunkard who is assigned the task of coaching a group of people who have no natural gifts when it comes to baseball.
After taking his wild baseball team to Houston for a test game, a disturbed and disobedient teenager meets his father, whom he employs as the team's coach.
Marvin Lazar, a novice promoter, transports a baseball team to Japan for a match against the country's greatest little league baseball team, which brings about a lot of adventures.
Morris Buttermaker is a former professional baseball player who now works as an exterminator. When he's recruited to coach a ragtag group of 12-year olds, the Bears, he gets a chance to redeem himself and even lead his team to victory.