Mark Ciardi

Mark Thomas Ciardi (born August 19, 1961) is an American 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 the 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, USA (2015)
• Fallen (2016)

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)