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The Baseball Star from Bingville
(1911) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by (unknown)
Cast: (unknown)
Essanay Film Manufacturing Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Released 27 June 1911. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Bim McGuffey has made a hit with his hometown scrub mine, when he is discovered by a “scout” for one of the teams of the National League. Immediately he is offered a contract and told to appear at the office of the city league, where his fame as a batter has preceded him. Leaving his hometown with the congratulations of all the citizens, he appears on the big league field next day for practice. Here it is found that while he is a good batter he is too fat to run and is told that if he will go out and work off his superfluous flesh there will be some hopes for him. With waning hope, he visits a specialist, who recommends a series of steam baths. Bim is put in one of the baths and told to ring the bell if the room is too bot. A few minutes later, when the doctor is absorbed in other affairs, he is visited by a friend, who has tickets to the ball game. The doctor forgets about Bim in the steam room and the two hurry to catch a car for the ball park. The scenes which follow alternate between the ball game and poor Bim in the steam room. The doctor, however, finally remembers his patient, and with the horrible supposition that his patient has been boiled to death, hurries back to his office and into the steam room, from which he drags the unfortunate ball player. Bim is a sight! He has been reduced to a mere human skeleton and weighs ninety-two pounds against his two hundred of an hour before. We leave Bim in despair, wondering what kind of a treatment he can take to make him normal.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Sports: Baseball
Listing updated: 11 December 2024.
References: Website-IMDb.
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