Major League (1989)

Rachel Phelps is the new owner of the Cleveland Indians baseball team. However, she has nefarious plans: She wants to move the team to Miami for the warmer climate and a new stadium. To justify the move, the team must lose--and lose badly. So she assembles the worst possible team. Among these are a past-his-prime catcher with bad knees, a shrewd but past-his-prime pitcher, a young tearaway pitcher--and felon--with a 100-mph fastball but absolutely no control, a third-baseman who is too wealthy and precious to dive, a voodoo-loving slugger who can't hit a curve ball, and an energetic-but-naive lead-off hitter and base-stealer who can't keep the ball on the ground. Against the odds, and after the inevitable initial failures, they iron out some of their faults and--much to Ms. Phelps' consternation--start to win.