Local Heroes: Baseball on Capital Region Diamonds

'Local Heroes' combines exhaustive research, rare archival film footage, fascinating still photography and revealing original interviews to bring viewers a fill range of the area's diamond history, from its mythical beginnings with Ballston Spa native Abner Doubleday to Heritage Park in Colonie - and everything in between.

Cast

Steve Fitz

as Self - Narrator

Bob Cudmore

as (voice)

Dave Povero

as (voice)

Billy Connors

as Self

Frank Keetz

as Self

Ralph Kiner

as Self

Tommy Lasorda

as Self

Bill Monbouquette

as Self

Jim Overmyer

as Self

Richard Puff

as Self

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