The Bush Leaguer (1927)
A Squeeze Play That'll Tickle Your Ribs and Warm Your Heart
"Specs" White owns a garage in town and is the local baseball team's #1 pitcher--but he's more interested in working on his latest invention, a new and improved gas pump, than pitching on the team. A scout for the Los Angeles Angels professional baseball team offers Specs a contract. He accepts, but only so he can use the money he gets to work on his invention. However, Specs has a secret he dare not tell anyone--he's scared to death of large crowds. Alice Hobbs, the young, pretty owner of the Angels, tries to help him with that problem, but a misunderstanding causes another problem. this time between Specs and Alice.
- Date of release
- 1927-08-20
- TMDB
- 10.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 1h 10m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Director
- Howard Bretherton
Casting
- Monte Blue — Buchanan 'Specs' White
- Clyde Cook — Skeeter McKinnon
- Leila Hyams — Alice Hobbs
- William Demarest — John Gilroy
- Richard Tucker — Wallace Ramsey
- Violet Palmer — Marie
- Bud Marshall — Stetson
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