Disney’s The Rookie opens today and tells the story of Texan Jim Morris. Houston’s Dennis Quaid portrays Morris in the movie. Morris hurled his first major league pitch at age 35.
Directed by another Houstonian, John Lee Hancock, The Rookie was filmed in Thorndale, northeast of Austin. The company also filmed in Taylor, Hutto, Thrall, Dell Diamond in Round Rock and The Ballpark in Arlington.
