Family Theater: Another Catcher in the Family
Family Theater · June 10, 1953 · 23 min · 4,054 words
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Family Theatre presents Pat O'Brien, Frank Faye and Betty Lynn. From Hollywood, the mutual network in cooperation with Family Theatre presents Another Catcher in the Family, starring Pat O'Brien and Betty Lynn. To introduce the drama, here is your host, Frank Faye.
Thank you, Tony, LaFano. Family Theatre'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.
So, family theatre urges you to pray. Pray together as a family, and now to our transcribed drama. Another catcher in the family, starring Pat O'Brien as Kurt and Betty Lin as Cathy. My name is Kurt Winslow and for nine years, I was first doing catcher for the Lions, the National League.
I learned a lot during that length of time, and in the last couple of years I learned that the old legs wouldn't take it much longer. Oh yes, I learned too. It's a tricky deal for a ball player to raise a motherless daughter the way he wants her to be raised.
You see, a mother died when she was seven and all I could do was, well, send her to boarding schools in the winter in girls camps in the summer, but she grew up to be 17 as sweet a girl and as loving a daughter as any man would ask for.
Then in spring training last year, I realized that the old man with the sigh and the hourglass was really creeping up on me. Our manager Hank Rogers asked me, You know, is that kid from the international? Is that Joe Banks?
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