The Stratton Story Page #3

there's an outfit in Hollywood

that really beats it out.

Baby, when I get through

showing you this town,

you won't ever wanna go back to Omaha.

We'll make the rounds.

And what we don't hit tonight,

we'll hit tomorrow night.

Just leave it to me.

Your Uncle Eddie's gonna

take care of everything.

Have fun, I always say.

Now, what's the use of living

if you don't have a good time?

You only live once.

And you can't take it with you.

- And I'm not...

- Let's go.

- Where?

- Home.

Why, Country? The night's young.

- Lots of spots we haven't hit yet.

- Yeah. You hit them.

We're heading home.

I'm very glad to have met you. Good night.

Did it occur to you that I might have

wanted to go on somewhere with them?

Well, what you wanted

wasn't so important.

- Oh, it wasn't?

- No, no.

What was important

was the way Eddie was treating Dot.

If he was trying to shine up to you,

he shouldn't have done it in front of her.

- Or in front of you.

- No. Oh, no, no. That's not what I mean.

Look, I'm sorry about tonight.

You sort of got stuck with me, didn't you?

- Oh, that's silly.

- No, it isn't.

I just never had much experience

with girls.

What's so funny?

- And you got stuck with the check.

- It was worth it to get out of there.

Here we are.

- Well, good night.

- Good night, Monty.

Monty, I'm sorry about tonight.

I behaved very badly.

But I haven't had too much experience

myself, with ballplayers.

Well, I'm not exactly a ballplayer yet.

I still have to make the team.

You'll make it.

Well, how do you know? You said

you didn't know anything about baseball.

I could learn.

When do you go home to Omaha?

A while yet.

- Time for me to come and call on you?

- Should be.

- Good night, Ethel.

- Good night, Monty.

Hey, bud!

Hey, you!

Where do you think you're heading?

- How's that?

- I said, where do you think you're heading?

Man, I sure don't know.

Monty, you sure looked good there today.

Boy, that old arm was

really whipping today, wasn't it?

Team's moving east tomorrow, son.

We're gonna take you with us.

When you get dressed, come in the office

and we'll sign you to a contract.

Barney, did you hear that?

What are you gonna do, Barney?

Well, if it's all right with you,

I sure would like to tag along with the boy.

- Can't have people just tagging along.

- Well, look, Mr. Dykes...

Can't have people hanging around

doing nothing.

Well, Jimmy, I'll do anything.

What could you do?

Offhand, I can't think of anything.

Unless you'd like

to coach the young pitchers.

Hi.

- Hello, Monty.

- Hello, Mr. Dykes.

We didn't have too much time

at that, did we?

- Enough to make me wish it was more.

- Maybe there will be.

What, you got any doubts about it?

California turned out much better

than I thought it was gonna.

Yes, it was nice,

your making the team, wasn't it?

Well, that's not what I mean,

and you know it.

I know, Monty.

All aboard!

- Goodbye, Ethel. Let's get going, boy.

- All right.

- You will write, won't you?

- Well, I don't know.

Well, how will I know you're thinking

about me if you don't write?

Well, I'll never be able

to write down what I'm thinking.

I'm not much of a letter writer.

All aboard! All aboard!

Hey, aren't you coming with us?

Well, goodbye.

Goodbye.

Yeah.

Now, this fellow likes an outside pitch.

You gotta keep them inside on him.

Yeah, now this fella, he murders curves.

You've gotta power them at him

high and fast.

Hey now, with a man on first,

the batter will try to hit it

behind the runner into right field.

So you gotta pitch it inside to him.

That's a good thing to know

if I ever get a chance to use it.

Don't rush it, son.

You get an education this way.

Good view of the game.

- I ought to be paying for this seat.

- Easy, boy.

Those Yankees are murder.

Time!

Time!

- Pretty rough, huh?

- A guy can get killed out there.

What a gang. Dickey, DiMaggio, Gehrig.

You can't power it past them, kid.

If you're gonna get by,

you gotta outthink them,

cross them up,

give them what they don't expect.

I guess what they don't expect is me.

They don't have to worry about me

outthinking them from here.

Boy, every time I get paid,

I feel like I was stealing.

Play ball!

Country!

Warm up.

What I've been waiting for. Let's go.

Oh, not at a time like this.

Those Yankees have sent

more pitchers to Omaha...

Now pitching for Chicago,

number 25, Monty Stratton.

Well, Country,

you finally got off the bench.

Now batting for New York, Bill Dickey.

I guess I didn't know when I was well off.

Just another ballplayer.

You gotta face them all.

Play ball.

Come on, rookie, let me see a nice one.

Omaha.

Hi.

- Hi!

- Hello, darling.

Gee, I'm glad to see you.

What are you doing here?

I thought you were...

I know, I know, I know.

Now come on, sit down.

I want to have a little talk with you.

I got a problem.

But you said in your letter

you might pitch this week.

I did, yeah.

That's what I want to talk to you about.

- What happened?

- Well, everything.

Honey, you know,

when I left you in California,

- I sort of figured...

- What was the score?

That's not important. They murdered me.

The thing that's bothering me is that...

Well, they can't expect you

to win every game.

Honey, they don't expect me

to win any games.

They shipped me down here to Omaha.

Said I needed more experience.

Well, they don't put you in jail

for playing in Omaha.

I know, I know.

There's nothing wrong with Omaha,

but it's just that

I might not even make it here.

I don't know. We're going out on the road

for a couple of weeks.

First thing I know, I'll be back on the farm.

- Don't you like the farm?

- Sure, sure. It's all right.

- But it...

- Well, then?

Well, it's just that

things are different now, that's all.

Now there's you.

Am I your problem?

- Well...

- Would it help any if I said I love you?

That's the problem.

Oh, I see.

Oh, no, you don't see, Ethel. I...

No matter what I was doing,

I kept thinking about you.

And every time I'd see something exciting

that I'd never seen before,

I kept wishing you were there

to see it with me.

I don't know.

If that's love, man, I really got it.

Oh, you had me worried.

Oh, but I had all sorts of plans for us,

honey, going up in the big leagues and all.

Now I don't know where I'm headed.

It doesn't matter to me

whether you're in the big leagues or...

But a man's gotta know where he's going.

- Well, what do you wanna do?

- Well, just give me a chance to make it.

I just wanna make sure

that I'm not gonna let you down.

All right, Monty, if that's what you want.

You're what I want.

Oh, I love you, Monty.

You could never let me down.

- Monty?

- Yes, dear?

What was the score?

16-0.

Sixteen?

- To nothing?

- Nothing.

Honey, do you know

there's a tailor in Chicago

that gives a suit of clothes away

to every ballplayer

that hits the scoreboard in center field?

As of yesterday, the New York Yankees

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