The Great American Pastime

The Great American Pastime is a 1956 film. A comedy about Little League baseball, it stars Tom Ewell.

When it turns out Dennis is instead assigned to play for another team, the Tigers, wife Betty assumes that Bruce will quit the coaching job, but he feels a commitment has been made and needs to be kept. Bruce sets about advising his Panther players that trying is more important than winning, but many parents disagree, and Tigers coach Ed Ryder in particular will do anything necessary to win a game.One parent, widow Doris Patterson, appears to flirt with Bruce in coaxing him to let her son Herbie be his teams pitcher. Another, the wealthy banker George Carruthers, invites the Hallertons over for dinner, only to pitch his own son Foster to the coach. ........

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