Rick Reed
Actor · 1950 – 2020 · Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Rick Alan Reed (March 3, 1950 – July 16, 2020) was an American umpire in Major League Baseball. He joined the American League staff in 1979, and worked throughout both major leagues from 2000 to 2009. He was named a crew chief in 1999. Reed wore uniform number 23. He had a brief acting career in the off season playing an Umpire in the movie For Love of the Game starring Kevin Costner. Having survived two strokes late in his umpiring career and subsequently joining the league office as an observer of umpires in Detroit, Reed died on July 16, 2020, at the age of 70. He left behind his two loving sons Tyler and Ryan and wife Cindy.
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Movie6.4DramaRomanceA baseball legend almost finished with his distinguished career at the age of forty has one last chance to prove who he is, what he is capable of, and win the heart of the woman he has loved for the past four years.
For Love of the Game
1999 · 486 votes
Movie6.1DramaDr. Richard Sturgess leads a team of compassionate doctors at a veteran's hospital. Along with Drs. Morgan, Handleman and Van Dorn, he fights to deliver adequate care to needy veterans in the face of funding cuts and a corrupt administration. To succeed, the staff may have to bend the rules and circumvent the villainous "Article 99," a bureaucratic loophole that prevents veterans from receiving the benefits they deserve.
Article 99
1992 · 70 votes