Casey at the Bat

Kathy and Elliot Lewis on stage. The Lewis, Elliot Lewis, two of the most distinguished names in radio. Appearing each week in their own theatre, starring in a repertory of trans-brab stories of their own and your choosing.

Radio's for most players in radio's for most plays. Drama, comedy, adventure, mystery, melodrama. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Elliot Lewis. Good evening. May I present my wife, Kathy? Good evening. Many people have asked us if there's a difference between married couples in show business and married couples anywhere else.

There isn't. For example, it being that time of the year, the other day Elliot said to me... Spring. Isn't it beautiful? Green grass? Clear, warm days. And then he put his newspaper down and said to me...

me? Kathy? Yes, dear. Do you suppose it would be alright if we did a baseball story on stage? It's that time of the year, you know. And of course I agreed. And so tonight, a new dramatization of Ernest Lawrence Thayer's classic Casey at the Bats, with high Averback as the mighty Casey.

We take you now to the most famous baseball game of them all. Hooked extremely rocky for the Mudville Nine that day. The score stood two to four with but one inning left to play. So when Cooney died at second and Barrows did the same, a pallor wreathed the features of the patrons of the game.

No you're sticking around here anymore, Mudville's done for. Maybe Casey to get his bat. No, no old timer. It's all over but the funeral. Ooooh! A straggling few got up to go, leaving there the rest.

With that hope which springs eternal within the human breast. But they thought, if only Casey could get away! If you Casey would just get up there and take a swing! Yes, they put even money with Casey at the best.