The Comeback Kid is a 1980 American made-for-television romantic comedy sports film starring John Ritter, Susan Dey and Doug McKeon which was broadcast on ABC on April 11, 1980.
The film features many actors well known from their TV appearances: Ritter (Three's Company), Dey (The Partridge Family), Gregory (Barney Miller), Licht (Valerie/The Hogan Family), Lembeck (One Day at a Time), McKeon (On Golden Pond), and Kim Fields (The Facts of Life).
Bubba Newman, a minor league baseball player, quits the sport to do something else with his life because he feels "down and out."
He renews his outlook on life when he becomes a coach for a group of underprivileged kids and finds romance.
Then one of the youngsters dies after getting hit by a car while racing to see Bubba when the latter returns to the team after flirting with playing again.