The Final Season is a 2007 baseball film starring Sean Astin, Rachael Leigh Cook, Tom Arnold, Powers Boothe, Larry Miller, Brett Claywell, Michael Angarano, and Marshall Bell and directed by David Mickey Evans.
Stock is unaware that he has been picked by the school's Principal Halberstorm to replace Van Scoyoc in order to facilitate a losing 1991 season.
In May 1991, Norway High's baseball tradition ends on a triumphant but somber note as it wins its 20th state championship in its final season.
A video clip of the actual Coach Stock thanking Van Scoyoc publicly for the opportunity opens the final scene.
The critics consensus reads, "The Final Season recycles clichés we've seen in countless other sports movies, making for an unoriginal and uninspiring addition to the genre.