" It was horrible; unsafe, incredibly long hours. I pulled a 100-hour week at one point. It was just insane."

Long Gone is a baseball movie that didn't last in the major leagues.

Filmed around Tampa Bay in 1986, the $5 million HBO project changed the rules as one of the cable giant's first in-house productions, paving the way for today's Emmy superiority.

Then it disappeared, like a hanging curve crushed by Cecil "Stud" Cantrell, player-manager for the fictional Tampico Stogies, owned by Deep South shysters in a town resembling old Ybor City.

Read more at the Tampa Bay Times.