(originally posted @ baseballhall.org)

Baseball Hall of Fame Film Festival
Cooperstown, NY, October 2, 2010

By, Bill Francis, 10-5-10. The public’s love affair with both baseball and the movies was on full display when the Fifth Annual Baseball Film Festival took place this past weekend at the Hall of Fame.

For director Mike Diedrich, bringing his film Ballhawks, which concerns the men who chase balls hit outside Chicago’s famed Wrigley Field, to the Baseball Hall of Fame was somewhat overwhelming.

“I don’t know if I can put it into words. It’s indescribable,” he said. “I’m a huge baseball fanatic and this, I think, is as good as it gets. And three of the Ballhawks made the drive out here, driving all night, so it makes it even more exciting.”