Story of the Tampico Stogies, a low minor-league baseball team, and its star player and manager, Stud' Cantrell, as they battle for the league championship amidst the corruption and racism of the American south.

William Petersen
as Stud Cantrell

Virginia Madsen
as Dixie Lee Boxx

Dermot Mulroney
as Jamie Weeks

Henry Gibson
as Hale Buchman

Neil DeGroot
as Pukey Smathers

Katy Boyer
as Esther Wrenn

Teller
as Hale Buchman, Jr.

Robert Easton
as Cletis Ramey

Panchito Gómez
as Paco Izquierdo

David Langston Smyrl
as Monroe Wright