We look at 12 classic clips from 12 classic baseball films through the lens of the Hero’s Journey. What does baseball mean to us? How does it cross generations?
Here are the films and the stages of the hero’s journey:
Ordinary World: The Sandlot
Call to Adventure: Everybody Wants Some
Refusal of the Call: A League of Their Own
Meeting the Mentor: Bull Durham
Crossing the Threshold: 42
Tests, Allies & Enemies: Major League
Approach to the Inmost Cave: The Bad News Bears
The Ordeal: Field of Dreams
The Reward: Eight Men Out
The Road Back: Bang the Drum Slowly
Resurrection: Moneyball
Return with Elixir: The Natural
Dr. Robert Cochrane is a graduate of UNLV's Integrated Health Sciences department. He's researching the effect of improvisation and storytelling on Parkinson’s disease. He received grants from the Parkinson's Foundation and support from the Davis Phinney Foundation along the way. He is a popular, unique and high energy Keynote speaker, bringing joy, optimism and practical tools for people in the PD community to thrive today.
He has a background in filmmaking, with the Artisan Entertainment release, The Playaz Court, and two Stephen King-based short films among his credits. His father, Dan, was diagnosed with PD in 2001, which shifted Robert’s artistic lens to health. He made his first documentary, the award-winning Boys of Summer in 2004. There are two follow up films in the series with the fourth film coming in 2023.
He moved his family back to Walnut Creek, CA, where he grew up. He lives there with his beautiful wife, two teenagers who are, indeed, "all that" and is a proud care partner for his amazing parents.
