If I Never Get Back

On his way home from his father’s funeral and back to a broken marriage, reporter Sam Fowler steps off a train and is somehow transported to the year 1869. While trying to make sense of what has happened and trying to stay ahead of the authorities, Fowler hooks up with the Cincinnati Red Stockings, the first professional baseball team. While in the world of post-Civil War America, Sam falls in love, becomes baseball’s first concessionaire, battles street gangs, participates in a robbery, and meets Mark Twain, all while traveling and playing baseball with the Red Stockings.