Stacked

Twenty three years after a fly ball determined the outcome of one of the greatest high school baseball games ever played, for the first time ever players from both teams sit down to recant that game, that play, and the effect it's made on their lives.The year was 1999, and a couple of schools 4 hours apart were embarking on a season-long journey to become the best high school baseball team in Michigan. The Sturgis Trojans and the Pinconning Spartans were schools that were built from the ground up by communities that were unapologetically determined to do one thing… WIN. Both schools were championship caliber baseball teams that didn’t know a thing about each other when they took the field at Battle Creek’s Bailey Park to face-off in the 1999 Michigan High School Athletic Association state championship. Finally, 23 years later, we have uncovered fascinating details about both teams, their run to the state finals, and the emotional thoughts and feelings behind one of the most memorable final innings in Michigan sports history.Meet the players and coaches who relate the story in fascinating, glorious, and sometimes agonizing, detail. From the unlikely sole sophomore who became the hero to the coach who wants to “burn down” the opponent’s city. Vintage home movies of the event and clever inserts of “90s” graphics transports the viewer right back to 1999 and in the middle of the action. You don’t know the players going in, but you’ll be craving to know more by the time it ends.