In the previous entry on Jose Canseco, I included a story from the original Twilight Zone series. Since there are no new stories, the familiar theme of a man thrust back into an alternate universe was repeated for the umpteenth time. Here, in Extra Innings, from one of the program’s later incarnations, Marc Singer plays a former big leaguer whose injury thwarted what was a promising career. He finds solace in the form of an old baseball card (the player, whose carer was cut short by a fatal pitch to the head, looks just like him, of course) and is transported back into time where he can still be a strong, youthful athlete. Needless to say his long-suffering wife thinks he’s a whack job and he’s forced to choose between the real world and his alternative life. Very cliched story, but, hey, it’s baseball.
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