In the opening scene of the underrated baseball movie Little Big League, 11-year-old Billy Heywood’s mom and grandpa are sitting in the stands at a little league field. Billy’s mom ...

That is where, likely in early July of 1994, I saw Little Big League with my aunt. As a soon-to-be 9-year old just falling in love with baseball, Little Big League was pure wish-fulfillment.

His mother, Ashley Crow, played Jenny Heywood, the mother of a 12-year-old who becomes the new owner of the Minnesota Twins in the 1994 baseball movie "Little Big League." Follow every MLB game ...

Ashley Crow played Billy Heywood's mom, Jenny, in "Little Big League," a 1994 movie about a 12-year-old who's suddenly thrust with owning and managing the Twins. Now, Crow's real life son is ...

But, for most of his life, he’s had a movie to turn on to watch a fictional young man live out his Major League dream. “Little Big League” is surely a fixture in the Crow household.