Pretty much.

I still can't figure out who plays him in the movie.

Thomas Jane.

Or this dude from Band of Brothers: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0191044/

Man, I guess we can't feel too sorry for the TB Rays these days, but it has to be a little frustrating watching Hamilton get his act together and then shine, way too late to do them any good. But it's an awesome story.

I happened to be in our company's kitchen when he was hitting these things and yeah they were monsters. The only thing I've ever seen that came close was watching Albert Pujols hit BP fastballs off the back wall of the left-field bullpen at Dodger Stadium.

Here's what I wrote:

http://newberg.mlblogs.com/archives/2008/07/hes_ours.html