WME Talent Attachment Deck

Courage Wears Two Uniforms

HOME & AWAY

Baseball's Greatest Heroes

71
Hall of Famers
4
Wars
1
Nation

In Partnership with the National Baseball Hall of Fame

The Opportunity

This is the last time these stories can be told right.

WWII veterans are gone. Korea veterans are in their 90s. The America 250 window doesn't come again for 250 years. A prestige cinematic event telling the never-before-told stories of 71 Baseball Hall of Famers who served in wartime.

What we need: The voice.

The Series Opening

It's a fighter plane, from the pilot's eye and it's flying over Korea... slow and sunny and then bang! Wham! Boom! The biggest goddamn explosion you ever saw... and then it goes dark. Dark! For maybe 10 seconds... And then when it comes back, there's the ballpark. And the crowd. Roaring. And that's how it's supposed to begin. Ted Williams to Richard Ben Cramer

This is how HOME & AWAY begins.

July 4, 2026
America 250
October 2026
World Series Premiere
November 11, 2026
Veterans Day Broadcast

The Stories

Five Narrative Pods

Band of Brothers-style narrative arcs. Not talking heads. Prestige cinematic storytelling with AI-enhanced combat sequences, living archive photography, and the voices of those who were there.

Christy Mathewson

Story One

The Great War

Cobb & Mathewson

Ty Cobb and Christy Mathewson: fierce rivals on the diamond, brothers in the gas-filled trenches of France. Mathewson is exposed to mustard gas in a training accident. He never recovers. Dies at 45. Cobb carries the guilt forever.

Ted Williams in fighter cockpit

Story Two

The Kid Who Interrupted Greatness

Ted Williams

Two wars. 39 combat missions. The greatest hitter who ever lived walked away twice. His jet catches fire over enemy territory. He crash-lands, walks away. Returns to Fenway, takes batting practice in street clothes, hands bleeding. The crowd goes silent. Then erupts.

Jackie Robinson in U.S. Army uniform

Story Three

The Trial That Made a Trailblazer

Jackie Robinson

Before Brooklyn, before Branch Rickey, before the color barrier shattered, there was Fort Hood, Texas. Jackie Robinson refused to move to the back of a military bus. He was court-martialed. He was acquitted. That tribunal steel-hardened him for everything that came next.

D-Day landing

Story Four

The Immigrant's Son at D-Day

Yogi Berra

June 6, 1944. Utah Beach. A 19-year-old kid from an Italian immigrant family in St. Louis mans a machine gun on a rocket boat 300 yards from shore. He survives. He comes home. He becomes the most quoted man in American sports.

Story Five

The Lost Players

The Empty Plaques

Eddie Grant. Elmer Gedeon. Harry O'Neill. And the thousands who never got their chance at bat again. Every generation, baseball sent its best. Not all of them came home. For every hero who returned, thousands didn't.

The Format

Not a Documentary.
A Cinematic Event.

Band of Brothers
Narrative-driven, character-focused. These are stories, not segments. Each pod is a self-contained cinematic experience.
AI Cinema
Hyper-realistic AI-enhanced combat sequences rivaling Top Gun: Maverick. Living archive photography that brings still images to life.
Prestige Production
This is not talking heads over Ken Burns pan-and-scan. This is prestige. Volumetric capture. Period-accurate soundscapes. Cinematic scale.
Flexible Format
2-hour television special or limited series. The structure serves the distributor. Netflix, Apple TV+, Max caliber.
Distribution Targets
Theatrical/event premiere (World Series 2026)
National television event (Veterans Day 2026)
Streaming: Netflix / Apple TV+ / Max caliber

Talent Targets

The Voice

Every element is in place. The Hall of Fame partnership. The Emmy-winning team. The once-in-a-lifetime premiere windows. What we need is the voice that brings these stories to life.

Priority 1 — WME

Kevin Costner

The Perfect Fit

Why This Project

From Field of Dreams to the fields of Normandy. Nobody in American cinema understands what baseball means to this country better than Kevin Costner.

Costner has spent 35 years building the cultural vocabulary for baseball nostalgia. HOME & AWAY is the logical evolution. Not fantasy fields in Iowa, but real heroes who traded bats for rifles and came home to play again. This is the story Field of Dreams was preparing him to tell.

The Connection

BaseballField of Dreams, Bull Durham, For Love of the Game — the defining baseball movie actor of his generation
AmericanaYellowstone proved he owns American frontier mythology. Dances With Wolves showed he carries epic scope.
PatrioticThe Postman, Open Range — stories about American sacrifice and honor
CurrentHorizon: An American Saga demonstrates appetite for epic, legacy-defining projects

Subject Alignment

Ted Williams Stubborn heroism. Walked away twice. Costner's gravitas is built for this.
Yogi Berra 19 years old at D-Day. Warm humor underneath real heroism.

Priority 2 — WME

Denzel Washington

The Prestige Play

Why This Project

Two-time Oscar winner. The definitive voice of military honor and American sacrifice on screen. No one commands attention like Denzel.

HOME & AWAY isn't just about baseball players who served. It's about men who fought two wars: one overseas, one at home. Jackie Robinson was court-martialed for refusing to move to the back of a military bus before he ever stepped onto Ebbets Field. These are Denzel stories.

The Connection

MilitaryGlory (Oscar winner), Courage Under Fire, A Soldier's Story — the canon of Black military heroism in American cinema
JusticeMalcolm X, The Hurricane — portraying men who fought systems and won
GravitasHis narration would elevate this to Oscar-doc territory. Selective and legacy-focused.

Subject Alignment

Jackie Robinson The court-martial that steel-hardened him. Denzel has spent his career playing men who refuse to bow.
Larry Doby The forgotten integrator. Served in the Pacific, got none of Robinson's protection. Quiet dignity is a Denzel specialty.
Monte Irvin Negro Leagues legend who lost prime years to WWII. Finally reached the Hall at 51.

Priority 3 — WME

Matt Damon

The WWII Authority

Why This Project

Saving Private Ryan. That's the film that defined the WWII generation for modern audiences. Matt Damon was at the center of it.

The opening of HOME & AWAY: Ted Williams' fighter jet screaming over Korea. The crash. The darkness. Then the roar of the ballpark. This is the same tonal territory as Private Ryan. The horror of war and the grace of homecoming. And Ted Williams was a Red Sox legend. For a Boston kid, this is personal.

The Connection

WWIISaving Private Ryan, The Monuments Men — he IS the face of Greatest Generation cinema
BaseballLifelong Red Sox fan. Born in Boston. Fenway is personal.
NarratorThe Martian proved he can carry a story with just his voice and presence
ProductionArtists Equity (with Affleck) — producing ambitious prestige projects

Subject Alignment

Ted Williams .406 batting average. Two wars. 39 combat missions alongside John Glenn. Crash-landed a burning jet. Returned with bleeding hands. This is Damon's home team hero.
Yogi Berra D-Day at 19. Private Ryan energy.

Additional WME Talent Considerations

Ben Affleck
WME
Lifelong Red Sox fan. Oscar winner (Argo). Director chops could elevate. Artists Equity co-founder with Damon. Fenway is in his blood.
John Krasinski
WME
Jack Ryan series gave him military credibility. Some Good News showed patriotic instincts. Younger demographic appeal.
Jason Bateman
WME
Ozark proved he carries dark, dramatic material. Directing chops. Dry intensity that translates to narration. Current heat.
Eddie Vedder
WME Music
Massive Cubs fan. Pearl Jam could contribute original song or score element. "Original song + Costner narration" = cultural event, not just documentary.

The Ask

Commitment Options

WME likes options. Here are three tiers of talent involvement.

Tier Role Time What It Looks Like
Narrator Voice-over narration 2-3 sessions (~3 days) Read from script, record in your city, minimal travel
Narrator + EP VO + Executive Producer credit Same + name on project Lightest meaningful attachment to a prestige America 250 project
Host + EP On-camera + narration + EP 3-5 shoot days + VO Visit historical sites. Fenway. Cooperstown. Fort Hood. Walk where they walked.

What Talent Gets

The Team

Who's Behind This

Thaddeus D. Matula
Director / Executive Producer
Emmy & Peabody Award winner. ESPN 30 for 30: PONY EXCESS, Brian and The Boz. Currently in production on SIRKO (Ukraine war documentary). Founder, CINEMATULA / Double Life Films.
King Hollis
Producer
Round the Horn Productions. Exclusive multi-year partnership with the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Greg Bishop
Executive Producer
Musa Media. Army veteran. Bringing tactical and historical authenticity to the production alongside WME brand integration through 160over90.
Institutional Partner
National Baseball Hall of Fame

The Close

When you sit down in the theater and the lights go off... what's the first goddamn thing you see? Ted Williams to Richard Ben Cramer

71 Baseball Hall of Famers served in wartime. Their stories have never been told at this scale. The Hall of Fame is in. The America 250 window is open. The format is revolutionary.

All we need is the voice.

Contact
Greg Bishop
Musa Media
greg@musa-media.com  |  931.561.5219
National Baseball Hall of Fame  •  Round the Horn Productions  •  Musa Media  •  Cinematula
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