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The Plot: Deadball focuses on a young man named Jubeh (played by Tak Sakaguchi) who has a very traumatic experience as a child. While playing catch with his father, young Jubeh throws his hardest pitch (in which he floats hundreds of feet into the air in order to build maximum momentum) and explodes his father into a bloody mess. Jubeh and his little brother Musashi try to move on, but both find it difficult to leave violence outside of their lives. Musashi becomes a delinquent, while Jubeh goes on a kill-crazy rampage that leaves 50 dead. When Jubeh is picked up by the authorities, he is sent to Pterodactyl Juvenile Reformatory in order to wait for his trial date. This juvenile detention center happens to be run by a collection of Nazis who specialize in putting together sadistic baseball games. The Nazi warden quickly attempts to lull Jubeh onto their baseball team. It takes some real convincing, but when Jubeh does eventually sign up, the type of baseball that this team will have to play is a bit outside of the MLB rule set.
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