Mark Ciardi

Mark Thomas Ciardi (born August 19, 1961) is a film producer and former Major League Baseball pitcher. He played for the Milwaukee Brewers in 1987. In what is known in baseball terms as a "cup of coffee"" (a brief amount of time in e major leagues). He opened the season on the Milwaukee Brewers roster in which they started the season with 13 consecutive wins, a record that still stands today. Ciardi was actually the losing pitcher in their first loss of the season, a 7–1 loss to the Chicago White Sox. He was largely ineffective in all four of his appearances with the Brewers giving up 17 earned runs in 16.1 innings for a 9.37 ERA before being demoted to the minor leagues, never to return to the majors.

Filmography

As producer

• The Rookie (2002)
• The New Guy (2002)
• Miracle (2004)
• Invincible (2006)
• The Game Plan (2007)
• Tooth Fairy (2010)
• Secretariat (2010)
• Million Dollar Arm (2014)
• McFarland (2014)

As actor

• Welcome to Hollywood (1998)
• Me, Myself & Irene (2000)
• The Rookie (2002)
• Fever Pitch (2005)

External links

• Mark Ciardi at the Internet Movie Database

• Career statistics and player information from MLB, or ESPN, or Baseball-Reference, or Fangraphs, or The Baseball Cube, or Baseball-Reference (Minors)