A down-and-out baseball team's fortunes are lifted by a mysterious but seemingly unbeatable young player.A down-and-out baseball team's fortunes are lifted by a mysterious but seemingly unbeatable young player.A down-and-out baseball team's fortunes are lifted by a mysterious but seemingly unbeatable young player.
- Directors
- Writer
- Rod Serling(uncredited)
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- TriviaPaul Douglas, who had drinking habits, was originally cast to play McGarry but onstage began to look red and read raspingly, and it wasn't until his coronary-related death days after the episode was completed that it was realized he had been suffering poor health rather than reaction to drink. Because the episode was supposed to be a comedy, Rod Serling was reluctant to let it be broadcast with Douglas' impending death essentially captured on film. When CBS refused to pay for the episode to be re-shot, Serling personally underwrote the $27,000 it cost to have Jack Warden brought in to replace Douglas and to have some scenes re-done with Warden in place of Douglas.
- GoofsDuring the locker room scene (17 minutes on) the wall clock never changes from 1:45.
- Quotes
Rod Serling - Narrator: [Closing Narration] Once upon a time, there was a major league baseball team called the Hoboken Zephyrs, who, during the last year of their existence, wound up in last place and shortly thererafter wound up in oblivion. There's a rumor, unsubstantiated, of course, that a manager named McGarry took them to the West Coast and wound up with several pennants and a couple of world championships. This team had a pitching staff that made history. Of course, none of them smiled very much, but it happens to be a fact that they pitched like nothing human. And if you're interested as to where these gentlemen came from, you might check under 'B' for Baseball - in The Twilight Zone.
- ConnectionsEdited into Twilight-Tober-Zone: The Mighty Casey (2021)
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- Jun 24, 2023
Details
- Runtime25 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1