Damn Yankees

Damn Yankees follows the story of middle-aged baseball fanatic Joe Boyd who trades his soul to the Devil (the charming Mr. Applegate) for a chance to lead his favorite team to victory in the pennant race against the New York Yankees. Boyd is transformed into 22-year-old baseball sensation Joe Hardy who reinvigorates the hapless Washington Senators and turns them into a winning team. While Joe enjoys this newfound youth, he realizes how much he misses the life (and wife) he’s left behind. As Joe considers exercising the “escape clause” he managed to negotiate in his pact with the Devil, Mr. Applegate employs an impressive arsenal of underhanded trickery to convince Joe to keep his bargain, including enlisting the aid of a seductive witch named Lola. Brad Blake directs.