Starting Friday, Oct. 3, “The Streak” will show at select Megaplex Theaters locations in the state.

The documentary focuses on the 1987 Salt Lake Trappers baseball team. In the established eight-team, rookie-level Pioneer Baseball League, where six teams were affiliated with Major League clubs, the Trappers were unaffiliated. But on the tail-end of a three-peat of league championships, the Salt Lake club made history, rattling off a 29-game win streak that still stands as the record for professional baseball at all levels in the United States.

“The Streak” chronicles the Trappers’ exploits that season and explores the personal stories of those involved.

“The subjects of ‘The Streak’ accomplish an amazing feat that’s awe-inspiring and unbelievable. But unlike ‘the Greats,’ the players on the 1987 Trappers team have deeply personal journeys that I think are relatable to all of us,” director Kelyn Ikegami said in a Q&A provided by the production company. “Through their struggles, we can see a piece of ourselves on the screen, because everyone (who) watches this film — sports fan or not — has tasted what it feels like to fail.

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“So many of us have had to give up on a dream and pursue another. So many of us have wondered what makes life meaningful. And that makes this not just a sports film, but a human one.”

Originally planned for one week, the first Utah run of “The Streak” at the Broadway lasted three weeks due to high demand.

The Megaplex website displays showtimes at locations in Ogden, Sandy, South Jordan, Lehi and St. George, with tickets currently listed at $5 apiece. The film is rated PG with a runtime of 1 hour, 47 minutes.

Preproduction of “The Streak” began in 2018 and filming in 2019, but the COVID-19 pandemic stopped all work except editing until April 2022. Producers finished filming in December 2022 and the movie was first shown in 2024, winning the “audience award” at the 2024 Nashville Film Festival.

The Trappers are the baseball ancestors of the current Ogden Raptors. Raptors co-owner and team president Dave Baggott played for the Trappers in 1986, then joined the operations side and became the team’s general manager.

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Trappers’ ownership — a group led by Jack Donovan that included actor Bill Murray — chose not to move the franchise in 1993 after Joe Buzas, owner of the triple-A Portland Beavers, struck a deal with the city to move his franchise to Salt Lake (becoming the Buzz, now the Bees) and replace 46-year-old Derks Field, leaving the Trappers without a ballpark.

It was a tough pill for all involved with the Trappers. Having won four league championships in eight years, Salt Lake posted a franchise-best 53-23 record in the team’s final season and pulled in what still stands as the Pioneer League record for single-game attendance when a crowd of 12,870 fans saw the Trappers play visiting Idaho Falls on Sept. 5, 1992.

With ownership not bidding to keep the franchise going, the Deseret News reported, league bylaws handed operations to the Pioneer League, which ran the team in Pocatello. After one year in Idaho, Baggott, John E. Lindquist and others bought the team, which played as the Ogden Raptors beginning in 1994.

Ikegami said that while a documentary, “The Streak” drew inspiration from “The Natural,” “Field of Dreams” and “Bull Durham” as stories that “originated at the heart of baseball that exhibit a sense of awe, heartbreak, and redemption,” and from the music of Bruce Springsteen to explore “our hopes, dreams, struggles, pain, failures, and something deeply rooted in the American myth.”

Ikegami said the subjects’ vulnerability was his greatest success in making the film.

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“While the streak was one of the most exciting things they’ve been a part of, with some time, they surprised me through their introspection on what it actually meant to them,” he said. “I think the fact that the climactic moment of the film isn’t the record-breaking moment but rather their reunion with each other is profound and is our greatest success.”