Conor O'Neill (Keanu Reeves) is a gambler who secretly bets $6,000 on his (dead) father's account Hardball Movie and is now severely in debt with two bookies. In order to repay the debts, he is told by a corporate friend that he must coach a baseball team of troubled fifth grade kids from Chicago’s Cabrini Green housing projects in exchange for $500 each week, for ten weeks.
Worried only about getting his $500 check, Conor shows up at the ghetto baseball field to a rag tag bunch of trash-talking, street-wise, inner city kids called “crack babies" that live in the projects, where people have to sit on the floor in their apartments to avoid stray bullets. Conor’s efforts are hindered from the onset by the fact that he doesn’t have nine kids to make up the team -- one kid, having altered his birth certificate to be older and another, “G-Baby” (DeWayne Warren), who is far too young to play. The kids tell Conor it is because their teacher, Elizabeth “Sister” Wilkes (Diane Lane), is making several boys finish a book report. Conor visits the teacher, but his life is threatened repeatedly by his bookies for not paying his gambling debts. He is visited by the mother of three boys that are allowed to play in exchange for his tutoring them. One of the kids, Jefferson Albert Tibbs (Julian Griffith), asks Conor to walk him home after practice, but Conor only caring about his partner bringing him tickets to scalp, didn’t realize how rough the neighborhood was after dark and is then given a car to take the kids home afetr practice.
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