Mighty Casey
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The Wrigley footage, with the stands empty, was supplemented by brief clips of stock-footage crowd scenes, from the Polo Grounds and Fenway Park. According to The Twilight Zone: Unlocking the Door to a Television Classic by Martin Grams, the entire production was originally filmed with Paul Douglas in the manager role.
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Douglas previously played a baseball team manager in the film, Angels in the Outfield. On Friday, September 11, , the day after the episode finished shooting, Douglas died. Douglas had been, unbeknownst to anyone, suffering from an incipient coronary during the production; his performance was adversely affected, as on film, Douglas appeared mottled and out-of-breath.
Writer and executive producer Rod Serling felt that the circumstances of Douglas' death he was quite literally dying on camera cast a pall over what was supposed to be a light-hearted comedic episode, and decided that a re-shoot was necessary. CBS refused to finance any re-shooting, so consequently, virtually the entire production was refilmed at the expense of Rod Serling's Cayuga Productions with Jack Warden in the team manager's role.
The other roles were not recast, and as much footage from the original filming was used as possible, including in the episode's final shot a scene in which Douglas is seen in the distance, with his back to the camera, as the manager. Original director Alvin Ganzer was not available for the re-shoot, so Robert Parrish was brought to complete shooting; both are credited as directors on the finished episode.
In Serling's original first-draft script and in his short-story adaptation that appeared in the anthology, Stories from The Twilight Zone , the team was supposed to have been the Brooklyn Dodgers their stadium in the original story was "Tebbet's Field" , who, like the fictitious "Hoboken Zephyrs", moved west in to become the Los Angeles Dodgers. Although there was never actually a major league team in Hoboken, on June 19, , the first officially recorded organized baseball match was played under Alexander Cartwright 's rules on Hoboken's Elysian Fields with the New York Base Ball Club defeating the New York Knickerbockers The title refers to a well-known 19th century baseball poem, Casey at the Bat.
Robert Sorrells , who played Casey in the episode, is currently serving a life sentence in California for a murder and attempted murder after shooting two men in a bar. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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This page was last edited on 17 November , at Then from 5, throats and more there rose a lusty yell; It rumbled through the valley, it rattled in the dell; It knocked upon the mountain and recoiled upon the flat, For Casey, mighty Casey, was advancing to the bat. There was ease in Casey's manner as he stepped into his place; There was pride in Casey's bearing and a smile on Casey's face.
And when, responding to the cheers, he lightly doffed his hat, No stranger in the crowd could doubt 'twas Casey at the bat. Ten thousand eyes were on him as he rubbed his hands with dirt; Five thousand tongues applauded when he wiped them on his shirt. Then while the writhing pitcher ground the ball into his hip, Defiance gleamed in Casey's eye, a sneer curled Casey's lip. And now the leather-covered sphere came hurtling through the air, And Casey stood a-watching it in haughty grandeur there.
Close by the sturdy batsman the ball unheeded sped- "That ain't my style," said Casey. From the benches, black with people, there went up a muffled roar, Like the beating of the storm-waves on a stern and distant shore.
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With a smile of Christian charity great Casey's visage shone; He stilled the rising tumult; he bade the game go on; He signaled to the pitcher, and once more the spheroid flew; But Casey still ignored it, and the umpire said, "Strike two. They saw his face grow stern and cold, they saw his muscles strain, And they knew that Casey wouldn't let that ball go by again. The sneer is gone from Casey's lip, his teeth are clenched in hate; He pounds with cruel violence his bat upon the plate.
And now the pitcher holds the ball, and now he lets it go, And now the air is shattered by the force of Casey's blow. Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright; The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light, And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout; But there is no joy in Mudville - mighty Casey has struck out.
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Part of the Baseball Almanac family: War has its epics in heroic verse. Tragedy its sombre story in measured lines. Baseball has Casey at the Bat.