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Rookie of the Year (Screen Directors Playhouse)

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Directed by
  
John Ford

Cinematography by
  
Hal Mohr, A.S.C.

Season number
  
1

Air date
  
7 December 1955

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Episode no.
  
Season 1Episode 10

Featured music
  
no music credit

Production code
  
010

Episode number
  
10

Previous episode
  
Tom and Jerry

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Written by
  
Written byFrank NugentFrom a story byW. R. Burnett

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Screen Directors Playhouse

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Rookie of the Year is a 1955 half-hour baseball drama directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne, Vera Miles, Ward Bond, and Patrick Wayne, all of whom Ford would direct in The Searchers the following year. This film was an installment of the television anthology series Screen Director's Playhouse.

A sportswriter (John Wayne) realizes that a talented young rookie (Patrick Wayne) is the son of a former player (Ward Bond) convicted of throwing a game.

Patrick Wayne would later play a similar role in a 1962 television drama, also directed by John Ford, called Flashing Spikes, starring James Stewart and featuring John Wayne in a lengthy surprise appearance.

Cast

  • John Wayne as Mike Cronin
  • Vera Miles as Ruth Dahlberg
  • Ward Bond as Buck Goodhue
  • Pat Wayne as Lyn Goodhue
  • James Gleason as Ed Shafer
  • Willis Bouchey as Cully
  • Harry Tyler as Mr. White
  • William Forrest as Walker
  • Robert Leyden as Willie
  • Tiger Fafara as Bobby

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