Talent for the Game is a 1991 film directed by Robert M. Young and starring Edward James Olmos, Lorraine Bracco, Terry Kinney, Jamey Sheridan, and Jeff Corbett.

Scenes were filmed on the Palouse in the small town of Genesee, Idaho,[2][3][4][5] between Lewiston and Moscow, and nearby Garfield, Washington.

He is in danger of losing his life's work because the Angels' new owner, Gil Lawrence, is unhappy with the farm system and threatening to eliminate the team's scouts.

One day, when the car that he and girlfriend Bobbie, who also is employed by the team, are driving breaks down on a rural road, Virgil happens upon a country boy named Sammy Bodeen who has a pitching arm worthy of the major leagues.

Team management, desperate for a new star, immediately begins to overplay the arrival of Sammy with wildly overblown hype.