The Kid from Left Field

The Kid from Left Field
Directed by	Harmon Jones
Produced by	Leonard Goldstein
Written by	Jack Sher
Starring	Dan Dailey Anne Bancroft Billy Chapin
Music by	Lionel Newman, Music Director
Cinematography	Harry Jackson
Edited by	William H. Reynolds
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date	1953
Running time	80 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$670,000

The Kid from Left Field is a 1953 baseball film starring Dan Dailey, Anne Bancroft, Lloyd Bridges, and Billy Chapin. The film marked the reunion of Dailey and director Harmon Jones who had teamed up at 20th Century Fox a year earlier in another baseball film, the biographical The Pride of St. Louis.

The film was remade for television in 1979, starring Gary Coleman, Gary Collins and Robert Guillaume.

Former ballplayer 'Coop' (Dailey) is working as a peanut vendor at the ballpark of a struggling major league club, the Bisons. He has passed on his love of the game to his son Christie (Chapin), but after sneaking his son into the game one too many times, he is fired from his job. Christie ingratiates himself with the former owner's niece (Bancroft) and gets his father's job back as well as a position as batboy for himself.

As a publicity stunt, Christie is named their youngest manager ever, but when he falls ill, Coop replaces him as manager. The Bisons win the pennant and earn a spot in the World Series.

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