Family Theater: The Scout

Your family theater presents Eddie Bracken, Cathy O'Donnell and Brian Tricky. From Hollywood, the mutual network brings you the skull, starring Eddie Bracken with Cathy O'Donnell. To introduce the drama, your host, Brian Tricky. Thank you, Gene. We on Family Theater welcome our stars, Eddie Bracken and Cathy O'Donnell, to our stage in a story that is close to my heart, because I've been around the game of baseball for a pretty long time.

long enough to have a deep-seated respect for the sport and for the men who participate in it. Men like Lou Gehrig, Monty Stratton, George Sistler, Honos Wagner, and the mighty babe, who have given to it so many fine traditions of honesty, integrity, and courage.

Men such as Skip Welch, whose story you will hear tonight. tonight. No, no, you won't find Skip's name in any World Series lineup. And it doesn't appear in any of the Major League record books, yet in my humble opinion Skip was as great a big league ballplayer as they come. The reason why? Well, suppose I just begin the story for

him and let him carry on from there. It was some years ago in a small Midwestern town of Rosson that a group of intent wide-eyed boys from the local orphan asylum was gathered at the town's ball field. A grinning, cocky young fella in the uniform of Rosson's minor league ball club was talking to them. And believe me, they weren't missing a single word he was saying.

All right fellas, the hit and run is on. Now you're tearing down towards second base. Chuck, let's see how you slide into that bag. Come on. Oh, Zesskip. How you slid in hot all right Chuck, What's the idea coming up with your feet waving in the air like that?