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1949 • Baseball Clip • The Scout by Branch Rickey - Radio Drama · Retro Sports Radio: Classic Games from History

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Your family theater presents Eddie Bracken, Kathy O'Donnell and Branch Rickey.
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From Hollywood, the mutual network brings you the Scow, starring Eddie Bracken with Kathy O'Donnell.
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To introduce the drama, your host, Branch Rickey.
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Thank you, Gene. We on Family Theater welcome our stars Eddie Bracken and Kathy O'Donnell to our stage.
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In a story that is close to my heart because I've been around the game of baseball for a pretty long time.
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Long enough to have a deep-seated respect for the sport and for the men who participate in it.
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Men like Lou Gehrig, Monty Stratton, George Sissler, Honest Wagner and the Mighty Babe,
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who've given to it so many fine traditions of honesty and integrity and courage.
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Men such as Skip Welch, whose story you will hear tonight.
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No, no, you won't find Skip's name in any World Series lineup.
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And it doesn't appear in any of the Major League record books.
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Yet in my humble opinion Skip was as great a big league ball player as they come.
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The reason why? Well, suppose I just begin the story for him and let him carry on from there.
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It was some years ago in a small Midwestern town of Rosson that a group of intent, wide-eyed boys
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from the local orphan asylum was gathered at the town's ball field.
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A grinning, cocky young fella in the uniform of Rosson's minor league ball club was talking to them.
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And believe me, they weren't missing a single word he was saying.
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All right, fellas, the hit and run is on. Are you tearing down towards second base?
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Chuck, let's see how you slide into that bag. Come on.
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Okay, Skip, here I come.
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Oh, is that Skip?
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You slid in hard, all right, Chuck. What's the idea coming up with your feet waving in the air like that?
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Oh, my gosh, I figure if I got spikes on my shoes and I chop at the second baseman that way,
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maybe he'll get scared and won't be able to make a double play.
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Yeah, and maybe he'll spike the guy, maybe cut a tendon in his leg and finish him as a ball player.
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Gee, I never thought of it that way. You've got to think of it that way.
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When you slide into base, just slide hard, sure, but clean.
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That's the way a real ball play always plays, hard but clean.
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Remember that if you want to be a big leaguer someday.
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Boy, a big leaguer. Wouldn't that be something?
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Skip's going to be a big leaguer someday. Ain't you Skip?
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Well, where'd you get that cock-eyed idea, Chuck?
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Why, Skip, you're the best pitcher Rosson ever had. Everybody knows that.
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Well, that's a fine vote of confidence, Chuck, but there's a well-of-a-lot of difference between winning games
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for a bush-league team and playing in the majors.
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Let's get back to coaching. Now, let's say the hit-and-run worked okay, see?
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Uh-oh, there's the station wagon for you.
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Well, that's all for today. On the double, the last one there is a bush-league.
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And don't forget what I told you about sliding into second.
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You bet you, Skip. Slide in hard.
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Yeah, but clean, Ed. Don't forget that. You've got to play clean. Skip says so.
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That's right, Chuck. You're a good leaguer.
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Oh, what a bunch of swell kids. Swell kids.
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Kind of like them, do you, Skip?
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Oh, Mary. Hey, when did you sneak in, sweetheart?
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A few minutes ago. But I'd better check up and see if those boys have taken you away from me yet.
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Are you kidding? There's nothing we'll ever take first place ahead of you, honey.
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And don't you ever forget it.
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You better say that if you know what's good for you.
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But seriously, Skip, those boys really worship you.
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You're a hero to them, Chuck, particularly.
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That's crazy. So I'm coaching them at baseball, so what?
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No, you're a goodie more than a baseball coach.
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They know you came from the same orphanage once, too.
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So they think of you as a pal, a big brother.
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And from what I've seen, they have a real right to.
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Hey, for Pete's sake, how did we get caught off base like this?
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You know it's getting late. And my inner man says it's time to eat.
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Are you asking me to share a snack with you?
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I'm asking.
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Then I'm sharing.
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Well, let's get moving, sweetheart.
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I've got plenty of vitals, because tomorrow's game's going to be a big day, you know.
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Oh, what's so special about it, Skip?
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Well, I'm pitching them our honey, and there's going to be some big league scouts around.
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And if they tell me what I figure they're going to tell me, well...
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Skip, you don't mean...
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Look, all I'm saying is that if they do, you and me, well, we have some important talking to do.
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You betcha, Miss Collins, plenty important.
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Well, it was a big day, all right, in more ways than one.
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And when it was all over, Mary and I had our little talk on the front porch of the Collins' home.
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Only it wasn't exactly the way I figured it would be.
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You pitched a wonderful game today, Skip.
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What's so wonderful about it?
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Of course I won. Didn't see any scouts come up to me afterwards, did ya?
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Nobody offered me any dotted line to sign, did they?
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Oh, don't be so disappointed, Skip, honey.
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Being a big league baseball player isn't everything.
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Isn't it? Well, it's kind of late to tell me that.
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It's all I've eaten and breathed and dreamed about all my life, that's all.
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I know, Skip, but just remember this.
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You don't need to be a big league ball player to make you important to those boys at the asylum.
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Or to me.
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Yeah, that sounded fine.
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Sounded swell, only I wasn't kidding myself.
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Kids don't pick failures as their heroes.
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And I wasn't asking Mary to tie herself up to life to a Bush leaguer who never earned more than a two-bit salary.
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I was feeling pretty low, and when I walked home that night,
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maybe that's why I didn't hear him come up to me when he spoke.
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Still interested in that big league contract, Skip?
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Huh? Where did you come from?
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Oh, I've been following you for some time, Skip.
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Watching your progress, keeping an eye on you.
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What are you talking about? Who are you, anyway?
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Why, I guess you'd call me a scout.
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A scout? Hey, you don't mean from one of the big leagues?
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Well, there are only two big leagues. I represent one of them.
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Then that crack you made about, was I still interested in a contract? That was on the level? You're serious?
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I'm quite serious, Skip. If you sign with me, I'll guarantee that you'll be pitching major league ball within a year.
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You interested?
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Brother, you just signed yourself a boy.
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Well, maybe you'd better hear my terms first. There'd be a personal contract just between the two of us.
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Well, I haven't heard anything so tough so far. What else?
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You'd have to let me coach you, play the game my way, right down the line.
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Well, as long as it's baseball, I'll play it next.
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And you'd have to understand that when you're playing for me, winning is all that matters.
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They don't give contracts to losing pitchers. Is that clearly agreed?
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Oh, sure. You haven't thrown me a curve yet.
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It's fine, Skip. Now, that's all for now. Good night.
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Good night. Hey, wait a minute, wait a minute. I haven't signed that contract yet.
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Haven't you? Well, don't worry about it. You'll find that our little verbal agreement is binding enough. Good night, Skip.
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Well, that was the way I met him. Kind of a screwy guy, sounded like to me.
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But if he could get me into the big leagues, he could have more screws loose than the Model A Ford and I'd still love him.
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I was feeling like a million bucks when I hustled out to the ballpark the next morning to give Chuck and the boys their regular quotient session.
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I was early, they hadn't gotten there yet. But someone else had.
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Good morning, Skip.
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Hey, the scout. What you doing out here this hour?
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A good manager always checks up on his property, Skip.
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Huh? Oh, I get it. Well, I coach some kids out here, Scout. Some of them are pretty good, too.
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Might make some pretty good material for you in a couple of years.
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Yes, I have high hopes for that, Skip. But you're all through coaching here.
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I'm all through coaching? What do you mean, Scout?
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You're a valuable piece of property, Skip. Twisted ankle, a broken finger, sore arm. Your value is gone.
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Now I don't take chances like that with my property.
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From now on, you don't touch a baseball unless you're paid for it. I think you understand.
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No, I didn't understand. Matter of fact, I was pretty burned up about that property gag.
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And I wasn't figuring on stopping coaching with Chuck and the boys for nobody.
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So I started telling him off. Then it happened. The thing that kept happening to me after that.
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He was smiling at me like he'd done the night before on my way home. I seemed to hear him say something.
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There'll be a personal contract between the two of us, Skip. I think you'll find our little verbal agreement is binding enough.
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All of a sudden, everything he said made sense.
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I'd be a sucker taking any chances on an accident. I was heading for the big leagues. Why, he guaranteed it.
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What a joker I'd be throwing away a prize like that trying to teach kids, well, a bunch of goofy kids how to play ball.
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I saw Mary again that night and was all set to spring the big news on her. Only she opened up on me first.
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Skip, why did you stop coaching the boys?
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Well, how did you...
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Oh, Chuck must have phoned you, huh?
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Yes. He said some scout was there who talked you out of it because you were valuable property.
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Well, yeah, yeah, that's right, Mary. You see, I...
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Since when have you become too valuable to spend a little time with some orphans who idolize you?
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Well...
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You know, I'm not that kind of coaching. You can give them.
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Oh, look, Mary, you don't get it. The scout guaranteed me a major league contract inside of a year, but I've got to work for it, concentrate on it.
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I can't take any chances of anything going wrong, can't you see? I can't let anything get in my way now, can I? I can't.
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Is that something this scout said to?
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Well, what if it is? What about guys like Feller and Greenberg, Hubbell and Marion?
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Do you think those guys could have made it if they didn't have ambition and drive without doing it the hard way?
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No, Skip. I'm sure they did it the hard way. But I'll bet they did it the clean way, too.
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What's that supposed to mean?
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They...they had control of themselves and their ambitions.
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Oh, Skip, I'm afraid your ambition has control of you.
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So now you think I'm a screw loose dope with one foot on a cloud and the other in a bucket?
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No, Skip, no. It's just that I...I'm afraid, Skip.
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Please don't listen to that scout anymore. Please forget about making the big league that way.
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Please, Skip, for our sakes, please.
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I couldn't figure it. Just didn't make sense.
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I thought she'd get as excited over the good news as I was.
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She called my home run a foul ball. I couldn't figure it.
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I tried to forget Mary and concentrate on baseball.
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The scout was working with me all the time, advising me, coaching me.
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And everything he told me, just like when I brushed off Chuck and the boys, everything made sense.
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I started learning fast.
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I knew it was that game with the red shirts.
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A couple of errors behind me put me in a tough spot.
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The men on base and the league's leading hitter waiting at the plate.
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The manager came out to the mound from the dugout to talk to me.
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What do you think, Skip? He's a tough baby.
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Yeah, he'll get what, uh, well, what he don't like. I can pitch to him.
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Maybe. What are you figuring? Something low and inside?
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Yeah, yeah, low and inside. Get back there. I'll pitch to him.
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He'll get what the scout told me to give him.
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If a batter crowds the plate on you, throw a hard, fast one at his head.
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That'll drive him back, Skip. That'll loosen him up.
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So I pitched to him. I gave him one on the inside all right, right at his head.
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Hey, he beaned him. Got him right in the head.
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That boy's finished for this game. Yeah, if he ain't finished for good.
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Okay, we won the game and others too.
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Like the one with the golden bees.
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It was the last half of the night. Score tied.
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One out. We had a guy on third and I wangled a base on balls and was sitting on first.
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Almost anything meant the winning run now.
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Not anything but a double play. A double play would kill us.
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The pitcher told the rubber, loved the ball, looked at me over his shoulder
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and then he threw to the plate and I started tearing toward second.
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The hit and run was on and the batter took a swing.
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I saw the play out of the corner of my eye. I deep grounded a short.
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The shortstop threw it to second. One out.
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And the second baseman started his pivot to the throw to first.
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And if he made it, it was a double play and then I heard the scout.
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Break up that double play, Skip. If you have to give him the spikes, break it up, Skip. The spikes.
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I went into second sliding hard with my razor edge spikes cutting across the baseman's legs.
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Oh!
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We won that game too. It's just like the scout said.
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You have to play to win, Skip. The big leagues are waiting.
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Play to win, Skip. That's all it counts.
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Play to win, Skip. Play to win. Play to win.
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And I was winning too. 13 out of my next 15 starts.
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Winding up the season with 27 wins and only four losses.
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How good can a pitcher be?
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So maybe I beamed a few guys who wouldn't back away.
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Maybe a couple of second baseman needed a few leg stitches for spike wounds.
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Maybe the fans were starting to boom me and the other guys on the club were giving me the cold shoulder.
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So what? Like the scout said.
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What do you care, Skip? You're not gonna be here forever.
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You're gonna win those ball games and you'll move on. That's all it counts. Winning those ball games.
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I hadn't seen Mary all that time. I talked myself into thinking that it made no difference.
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It didn't bother me. Then it was the day before the last game of the season.
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The game we needed to cinch the pen.
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I was gonna pitch that game and I was in my hotel room studying the batting order,
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figuring my strategy when there was a knock on the door. I opened it.
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Hello, Skip. Mary. Hiya, Skip.
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And Chuck. And Mary. Come in. Come in.
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I'll sit down. Sit down. Thanks.
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She'll look nice, Mary. Thank you, Skip.
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You too, Chuck. Bet you've grown a foot since I last saw you. I'm playing any ball?
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You bet I have. Our team won the school league pen and Skip. How's the picture? We skunked everybody.
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Oh, boy, that's well.
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Yeah, it was the coach and you'd given us before you...
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Well...
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Why didn't you tell him about the rally, Chuck?
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Rally? What rally's that?
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Well, jeez, Skip, Miss Counts was gonna give us a picnic up in the mountains today.
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You know, I saw a reward like for winning the league race.
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Well, that sounds great. Sure, you bet. Only, we thought Scott was talking about it.
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Well, usually the guy who fixed it, that's who he could win.
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And...
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Oh, gosh, Miss Counts, you tell him.
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Of course, Chuck.
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What the boys want to do, Skip, is to make that picnic a good luck rally for you.
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They want to call it the Skip Welch Big League Rally,
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and they'd like to have you there as guest of honor.
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You mean that, uh...
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Well, after all, I...
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They still think enough of me to win one...
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What do you say, Skip? You'll come with us, won't you?
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Gee, those all want to see you real bad.
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Well, Skip?
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Sure. Sure, you bet I'll come.
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You just bet I will.
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The picnic rounds were back up in the mountains.
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It was quiet there and peaceful with nobody around.
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After fellas and I sort of got acquainted again,
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they went off exploring trails,
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and Mary and I were alone.
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It was the first time in a long time, and, well, I felt kind of funny.
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I hope you didn't mind too much coming out here today.
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Oh, no, no, I...
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It was, uh, it was okay with me, Mary.
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They tell me that big leagues will all be big in bidding for your services
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after tomorrow's game, Skip.
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So you've accomplished what you set out to do.
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It's not every man who can say that.
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Yeah, I guess that's right.
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Prove something to you, too, hasn't it?
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I think it has, Skip.
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It's proved you've won your goal and lost yourself.
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Proved that I...
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So we'll run that merry-go-round again.
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I don't think we've ever been off at Skip.
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Well, I'm getting off at it right now.
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Here I figured that after I show you I could get where I was heading my way,
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you'd listen to reason.
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Well, I was gonna rush out to your house tomorrow after things were settled
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and ask you to marry me.
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I'll be very happy to marry you.
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Well, you... you... you...
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You'd be very happy to...
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I should have said that long ago, I guess.
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It's really been my fault what happened to us.
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I don't... I don't get it. I... I...
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Well, I... I let you battle this thing by yourself, Skip,
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instead of helping.
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When I read in the papers about... about the way you were playing,
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well, I should have gone to you right then.
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But maybe it's too late now.
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Maybe you don't really want me now.
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Merry, merry, honey. Won't you? Gosh, I...
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I... I...
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Sweetheart, you just wait and see.
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Everything's gonna be fine.
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Help, Skip! Help! Where are you? Where are you?
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Skip, that's Ed. Something's wrong.
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Here, Ed! Over here. What's the trouble?
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Skip! Skip! It's Chuck. Help, Skip!
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It's Chuck.
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What about him, Ed? What happened?
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He fell over the side of the canyon.
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He's lying way down there. Skip, I... I'm scared he's dead.
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I tore over to where Ed told me.
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Down below, maybe 60, 50 feet was a tiny ledge.
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Beyond it, nothing but thin air for another couple of hundred.
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Chuck was barely lying on that ledge. He wasn't moving.
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Skip, what can we do?
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I'm going down there after him. Ed, look!
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There's a forest ranger station a couple of miles up the trail.
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Get there fast and tell him for Pete's sake to get back with help before it's too late.
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You better get... get...
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It was pretty tough going. Nothing but loose rock.
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I kept sliding out from under my feet, but I finally got there.
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Just above Chuck.
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I braced myself, wrapped one arm around an ironwood tree,
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reached down and managed to hook the fingers of my freehand on the Chuck's belt.
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And then the whole ledge gave way under it.
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I don't know how long I was hanging there.
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One arm wrapped around that tree, the other holding on the Chuck's belt,
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but a solid weight was straining at my arm, pulling at it,
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tearing at it as though it were going to be yanked right out of my shoulders.
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Then after a while, I was like in a daze, a dream.
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Voices were coming out of that dream. Voices.
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What do you think you're doing, Skip? Playing hero?
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Let go of him while you still got a chance to climb back yourself.
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Don't skip. Hang on. Help's coming. It's gone to get help.
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Don't be a sucker, Skip. The boy's dead. You're just ruining your arm that way. Let go.
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No, darling. No. Remember what we said about the boys depending on you. You can't let him down, Skip.
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Don't be a fool. Do you know what it means if you ruin your arm?
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No big leagues, no money, no job and baseball for the rest of your life.
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And what good are you doing, hanging onto a dead boy?
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You can't be sure he's dead, Skip. You can't be sure.
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Of course you're sure. Drop him, Skip. Drop him.
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No, Skip. No.
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Drop him.
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Hang on, darling.
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Drop him.
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Hang on.
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Drop him. Drop him. Drop him.
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Come in.
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Good morning, doctor.
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Well, Mary, what are you doing here at the hospital so early?
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I guess I couldn't sleep last night, doctor. Tell me how is he?
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Chuck. Well, that fall was a pretty bad one, Mary.
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There was severe shock, several fractures, internal injuries.
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Then that means...
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But kids are strangely hardy animals, Mary. Chuck's going to be all right.
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And Skip, doctor. What about him?
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Well, you know, of course, that his arm is ruined.
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But he'll never be able to play baseball again.
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I was afraid of that.
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How he ever managed to send the terrific pain he must have suffered, I'll never know.
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Talk about your torture, Rax. Why, he...
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Doctor.
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Yes, Mary?
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You still haven't answered my real question. How is he?
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I don't know. I had to tell him, of course.
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Ever since he's been lying in that room, staring up the ceiling, not saying word.
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I think you'd better go in and see him, Mary.
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Yes, I'll go right away. Thank you, doctor.
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Good morning, Miss Collins.
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You're the scout, aren't you?
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So, you recognize me?
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I think I'd recognize you, anyway.
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Yes. Yes, I imagine someone like you could do that.
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What do you want with me?
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Nothing. Except to congratulate you on your victory.
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I don't think I understand.
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Of course you do.
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You know I was doing quite well with Skip, until you threw your weapons on his side.
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My weapons?
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Now, you needn't pretend innocence, Miss Collins.
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You know very well what they are.
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Though you used them late, you employed them very effectively.
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The victory's yours.
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Rather hollow one, isn't it?
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Skip's arm ruined, his future gone.
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It's not much of a victory.
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Goodbye, Miss Collins. I won't be seeing you again.
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Come in.
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Hello, Skip.
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Hello, Mary.
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How are you feeling?
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Well, my arm is shot, you know. I won't be pitching any ball games.
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Yes, I know.
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There'll be no big leagues for Skip Welch.
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No crowd yelling my name.
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That won't make any difference to you, will it?
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Why should it skip? It never did before.
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Yeah. Yeah, I remember you told me that, didn't you?
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Funny thing, Mary. I wasn't going to make the big leagues anyway.
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Why, of course you weren't.
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No, no. I talked to the manager of our club on the phone this morning, before he knew about my arm.
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He said the big leagues didn't want me.
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They weren't interested in a beanball pitcher.
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And guys who were spike-happy.
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Funny, isn't it?
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I was on the wrong track all the time.
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But you told me that too, Mary.
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Skip, what are your plans, Skip, for the future?
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Well, I was always a pretty good mechanic.
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I guess I can get a job at Randall's Garage.
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And there's time for coaching the boys, too.
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One of these days, Chuck's is going to make the big leagues the right way.
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Skip, I'm sure he will.
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There's one more thing, that inner man of mine, he's got plans, too.
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Not sharing my heart, my future, my life.
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Would you be asking me to share with him, Skip?
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I'm asking, Mary.
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I'm sharing, darling, everything, for all time.
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For many years in our country,
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sport has been part of the whole educational program.
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In our schools, an integral part of the curriculum.
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Managers and coaches considered themselves builders of character.
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But the professional emphasis, the when at any price idea,
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has swept character building almost out of the picture.
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Now the tale frequently seems to wag the dog,
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character building is laughed at as being no part of the definition of education.
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Well, I'm old-fashioned enough not to go for that.
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We who believe in the objectives of the family theater
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have in mind telling boys and girls and folks everywhere
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that there's more to living and striving for material things,
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fame or money or whatnot,
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and there is more to sport and winning at any price.
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It's not easy for a Skip Welch to seek first things first,
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unless he has some contact or knowledge of contact with the source of values.
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That source is in the church, the school, and above all, the home.
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Good sportsmanship is not basically learned on the competitive play fields.
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Not there.
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Boy had it from within himself long before he knew a formal competitor.
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Not honors, but honor probably came to him as a slogan of effort
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from his mother's knees and not from any experience with bean balls on a play field.
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I have the most tender recollection of the few minutes after supper in my childhood
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of my country home on the bareboard floor as my father and my mother led in family prayer.
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Yes, we'll have better young men and women, better homes,
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and a better nation and a better world.
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When more people realize that the family that prays together stays together.
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More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
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Family Theater has brought you Eddie Bracken and Kathy O'Donnell in the Scout
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written by Sidney Marshall with Branch Rickey as your host.
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Music was composed and conducted by Harry Zimmerman,
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and the production was directed for Family Theater by Jaime Deauville.
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This series of Family Theater broadcasts is made possible by the thousands of you
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who have felt the need for this type of program,
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and by the Mutual Network which has responded to this need.
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This is Gene Baker inviting you to join us next week at the same time
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when Dan Durie A. will introduce the Postmistress of Law Run by Brett Hart.
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Join us, won't you?
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This is the Mutual Broadcasting System.
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