Inspirational Documentary Featuring Texas Baseball Ranch to have New York Premiere

July 25, 2018 - PRESSADVANTAGE -

The Texas Baseball Ranch® is featured prominently in the new documentary, “Late Life: The Chien-Ming Wang Story,” which follows the Taiwanese legend and former New York Yankees pitcher through his grueling effort to return to the Major Leagues. The film will be the Centerpiece Presentation at the New York City Asian-American International Film Festival on July 29th.

Wang came to The Texas Baseball Ranch at the age of 35, after a devastating injury had sent him to the deep minor leagues and out of affiliated baseball entirely. Ron Wolforth worked with Wang for several months, helping him correct a problem with his pitching motion and overcome the physical limitations of his age.

As a result, Wang was actually able to pitch faster than he could in his years with the Yankees, where he was a two-time 19-game winner and finished second in voting for the Cy Young Award. After completing his training with The Texas Baseball Ranch, he returned to the Major Leagues as a relief pitcher with the Kansas City Royals.

“Chien-Ming's decision to train with Coach Wolforth turned out to be the best decision he made. The highly personalized training program Coach Wolforth and his staff developed together for Chien-Ming was the difference maker in helping him regain the late life and velocity on his long lost sinkers,” said Alan Chang, Chien-Ming Wang’s agent.

Ron Wolforth said, "Our work with Chien-Ming Wang was made even more complex because of the language barrier. However Chien-Ming will forever remain at the top of the list of our all-time favorite clients because of his wonderful heart and unflappable demeanor. If it is true that most of the world cheers when the good guy, with love, hard work and determination, overcomes darkness and adversity, then they will absolutely love this documentary."

The Texas Baseball Ranch, located in Montgomery, TX, previously worked with Major League pitchers Scott Kazmir, Barry Zito, Bud Norris, C.J. Wilson, Trevor Bauer and Justin Verlander. To date, it has helped 345 young pitchers break the 90 mph barrier, 123 break 94mph and 19 who have topped 100 mph. 109 of its athletes have been drafted by Major League baseball teams.

For more information about the premiere, go to: http://aaiff.org/2018/films/chien-ming-wang-story-closing/.

For more information about The Texas Baseball Ranch, go to: https://www.texasbaseballranch.com/ or contact Jill Wolforth at: 936-588-6762.

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For more information about Texas Baseball Ranch, contact the company here:

Texas Baseball Ranch
Jill Wolforth
(936) 588-6762
Jill@TexasBaseballRanch.com
5451 Honea-Egypt Road
Montgomery, TX 77316