Family Theater: Brannigan's Bat

Family Theater presents Lloyd Nolan, Wayne Morris and Betty Lynn. From Hollywood, the Mutual Network in cooperation with Family Theater presents Wayne Morris and Betty Lynn in Grannigan's Band. To introduce the drama, your host Lloyd Nolan.

Thank you Tony LaFrano. Family Theater's only purpose is to bring to everyone's attention a practice that must become an important part of our lives. If we are to win peace for ourselves, peace for our families, and peace for the world, Family Theater urges you to pray.

Pray together as a family. Tonight's Family Theater takes great pleasure in presenting Brannigan's Bat, starring Wayne Morris as Eddie and Betty Lynn as Olivia. You know baseball is a funny game.

I've been in and around a ballpark as a player or a manager for quite a while now. And there's still only one thing I know for sure. A good ball player's got to have self-confidence, always.

And some of the things the average fan never hears about would... Well, maybe I better tell you the story of how I got started. And I guess I ought to begin it back in the bush league with a girl named Olivia.

All the way home, is it still on? Shh! Eddie's up! Two hours, last of the nine. He swings and misses for strike two. It's three balls and two strikes on better Eddie Hoopo. It's the pitch, he's struck him out.

Hoopo goes down swinging and Peoria loses. Oh, the poor Dolly must be so unhappy. He isn't the only one Olivia. Now let's face the facts. Eddie isn't the smartest feller I've ever met, but you're very fond of him.

Fund of him? I love him. I'm going to marry him. All right. The main thing I'm saying is he'll never amount to shocks as a baseball player. He just can't hit worth a darn. Hey, where are you going?