Baseball Double Feature - Kill the Umpire / Safe at Home
by Lloyd Bacon, Walter Doniger

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Summary of Baseball Double Feature - Kill the Umpire / Safe at Home

Kill The Umpire: When his wife threatens to leave him unless he finds steady employment, a baseball fanatic reluctantly accepts a job as a minor league umpire, "the lowest a man can get."

Safe at Home: When a young boy brags of his nonexistent friendship with Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris, he travels to the Yankees' spring training camp to make his boast come true.

The 1962 Safe at Home is built around the presence of New York Yankees stars Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle, who prove stiff but game playing themselves in the story of a little boy who gets in trouble for overstating his friendship with them. Young Hutch Lawton (Bryan Russell), a motherless child trying hard to help his preoccupied dad (Don Collier) build a business, brags to his Little League team that he knows Maris and Mantle, then sets out on a journey to talk the legendary sluggers into going back with him to meet the team. William Frawley (who also appears in Kill the Umpire) helps keep the pace going as the Yankees' manager, and Patricia Barry is a welcome presence as Mr. Lawton's love interest. --Tom Keogh

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