The Kid From Left Field (1953)

A former baseball player (Dan Dailey) now works selling peanuts at a ballpark while acting as a single parent to his son (Billy Chapin). His love of the game is passed on to his son who gets a job as a bat boy for a struggling baseball team. Directed by Harmon Jones (GORILLA AT LARGE). I'm not much of a fan of sports movies but this slightly sentimental piece of twaddle is actually quite tolerable. It's pretty predictable except it took me by surprise when Dan Dailey and the film's leading lady (Anne Bancroft) not only didn't end up with each other, they don't even have any scenes together! Young kids might enjoy this one, grown ups I'm not so sure. Remade for TV in 1979. With Lloyd Bridges, Richard Egan, Ray Collins and Fess Parker.