John Wayne and Baseball: Two American institutions

December 5, 2014

https://i0.wp.com/media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/b5/2b/27/b52b27d3d36fbfc6b883c6f70d451830.jpg?resize=180%2C252Just finished a review of the new John Wayne bio for Bookreporter, so I thought it would be appropriate to remind you that he starred in a 1955 television production of Rookie of the Year, aired some 36 years after the Black Sox scandal, which serves as an underscoring theme.

Directed by John Ford, the cast included Wayne as a sportswriter with Ward Bond as a former ballplayer implicated in the scandal, and Patrick Wayne –John’s son — as the son of the shamed Bond who’s trying to make it as a ballplayer himself.

It’s particularly appropriate since the original program aired on Dec. 7.

Enjoy.

 

 

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