Bang the Drum Slowly

The story of the friendship between the New York Mammoths major-league baseball team's worldly-wise pitcher Henry "Author" Wiggen and half-wit catcher Bruce Pearson as they cope with Bruce's terminal illness during a baseball season.

Bang the Drum Slowly is a 1978 drama sport movie directed by John D. Hancock, starring Robert De Niro, Phil Foster, Vincent Gardenia. It holds an IMDb rating of 6.7/10 from 6,813 votes and runs 1h 36m.