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Hallmark Playhouse · May 12, 1949 · 30 min · 4,211 words
The transcript of “You Could Look It Up”, an episode of Hallmark Playhouse first broadcast May 12, 1949. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Hallmark Playhouse plays Hallmark Playhouse free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.
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About Hallmark Cardman was for his good taste and you'll send them with pride for that identifying Hallmark on the back adds meaning It says you cared enough to send the very best Hallmark Playhouse presenting James Servers you could look it up starting William Broly The Grandpa Doc was training for a big league team
Baseball was baseball things really happened in ball games then like the time Pearl de Montville Pearl the Monville? A girl on a baseball team? Pearl was an old girl. Pearl was a midget. A midget? An old ball team?
You heard me, a midget. Cheek, Grandpa. That was about a long time ago. Don't go trying to cut me down to date, Jamie. I'll tell you how it happened. Is this a true story, Grandpa?
True. Well, you could look it up on the record. Every blessed word. It was toward the tag end of September, the year after we was World's champs. And I was cheap trainer and Twach's McGrew was manager.
What? Yeah, they called him Swach's because when things was going bad, he lost his voice and squealed like a little girl when he stepped on her doll or something. We was in a terrible slump.
From leaving the league by seven or eight games, we went flapping down to a half a game ahead of St. Louis. And Swach was coming to everybody. He wouldn't listen to nobody, and none of the players had listened to him.
Well, what about the midget? Girl? Well now I'm coming to Pearl don't rush me. We was on our way to St. Louis and stopped off in Columbus Ohio to play an exhibition game. Columbus playing the World Champs? That's right and I couldn't stand watching them slaughter us so I sneaked back to the hotel. I made the coffee shop okay open the door got inside
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