Ex-Dodger Steve Yeager Sues Filmmakers Over Payment

Former Los Angeles Dodgers catcher and 1981 World Series Most Valuable Player Steve Yeager sued two film companies for failing to pay him $10,000 for helping an actor improve his baseball skills.

Yeager, the nephew of legendary test pilot Chuck Yeager, contends Guardian Pictures and Whitelight Entertainment agreed to pay him $50,000 to serve as a technical adviser on the film ``Playing with the Enemy: A Baseball Prodigy, a World at War and a Field of Broken Dreams,'' according to a complaint filed Oct. 3 in state court in California. The companies agreed to pay $10,000 up front if the former Major Leaguer tutored actor Toby Moore on hitting and fielding before shooting began, Yeager said in court papers.