Hardball (television) Television series; debuting on September 4, 1994 on Fox, and airing until October 23, 1994. About the trials and triumphs of the Pioneers, a fictitious American League baseball team. Stars Bruce Greenwood (Dave Logan), Mike Starr (Mike Widmer), Dann Florek (Ernest “Happy” Talbot), Alexandra Wentworth (Lee Emory), Rose Marie (Mitzi Balzer).