The Great American Pastime

The Great American PastimeThe New York Yankees won today, so life is good for baseball fan Bruce Hallerton. On the same day, wanting to grow closer to his son, Bruce decides to manage a Little League team, so life is also. complicated. Suddenly, Bruce must cope with colleagues and parents who are "as soft as forgiving as a saber toothed tiger," with an attractive widow (Anne Miller) who wants her son to be the team's pitcher, with a jealous and suspicious Mrs. Hallerton (Anne

a gruff coroner (James Whitmore) and a Victim's widow (Brenda Vaccaro)

in this terrifying story that also features Laurence Haddon

They told Harry Barber the plan would run like clockwork

he offers millions to anyone who can return his son unharmed and help capture the kidnappers

Charles Bickford and Agnes Moorehead (all four Oscar nominees* for their fine work)

cramped apartment in a Brooklyn slum

Rudy discovers what he isn't supposed to know: the part of the breakout scheme Gannon didn't reveal to him

returning to the sagebrush genre that

Harold Peary (the Great Gildersleeve)

Lensed on gorgeous Fiji locations

But she's handled 27 cases in the last 18 months

And the madcap way they pull it off places Boy Meets Girl alongside such deft 19305 jabs at Tinseltown as Once in a Lifetime and Bombshell