The Winning Team is a 1952 American biographical film starring Ronald Reagan and Doris Day, and directed by Lewis Seiler.

It includes Alexander's heroic performance in three games in the 1926 World Series against the New York Yankees, where the seventh inning strikeout of Tony Lazzeri is used as the game-ending, Series-winning pitch.

[1] Grover Cleveland Alexander (Ronald Reagan) is working as a telephone lineman in Elba, Nebraska.

Meanwhile, his fiancée Aimee (Doris Day) is talking with her father, who doesn't have the best opinion of Alex because he is more interested in baseball than in farming.

After a small argument, Aimee switches to her father's side and promises that Alex will not play baseball.

Alex and Aimee attend a church meeting where an invited guest is to show film shots of his recent journey to Norway.

Aimee is inside, listening to the presentation, which is now interrupted by the sound of a ball hitting a glove over and over.

He regularly sends home a baseball card with his picture along with money so he can buy the farm for him and his fiancée.

His record during that year is 29-11 playing for the Syracuse Stars in the class B New York State League.

The scene turns to what Doris Day is known for: a Christmas at the farm where the family is gathered around and Aimee sings.

Alex spends most of 1918 in France as a sergeant with a field artillery unit where he is exposed to mustard gas, and a shell that explodes near him causes partial hearing loss as well as epileptic seizures.

As Alex is walking down the street, he passes a bar and the doorman recognizes him and invites him in for a drink "on the house".

He asks for the sports desk and tells the person who answers that he knows why Alex fell at the ballgame today: "He's a lush."

She finally finds out that he is a main headliner at a circus, touted as the man who can answer any and all questions about baseball - and specifically about pitching.

At Aimee's request, his old friend Rogers Hornsby contacts him and offers him a pitching job with the St. Louis Cardinals.

At the conclusion of the sixth game Alex and Aimee have a conversation in the tunnel of the stadium; it's here that she learns that he looks to her for strength while pitching.

They are at Sportsman's Park in St. Louis and in the seventh inning the pitcher of record has allowed the bases to be loaded.