An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend.

Keanu Reeves
as Conor O'Neill

Diane Lane
as Elizabeth Wilkes

Michael B. Jordan
as Jamal

D. B. Sweeney
as Matt Hyland

John Hawkes
as Ticky Tobin

Bryan Hearne
as Andre Ray Peetes

Julian Griffith
as Jefferson Albert Tibbs

DeWayne Warren
as Jarius 'G-Baby' Evans

Kris D. Lofton
as Clarence

Graham Beckel
as Duffy