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· 1946

Casey at the Bat

Jack Kinney
baseball overconfidence classic literature adaptation sports competition comeuppance
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Synopsis

The over-confident Casey comes to the plate for Mudville in this animated version of the classic 1888 baseball poem by Ernest Thayer

Year1946
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DirectorJack Kinney
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