Screen Directors Playhouse (TV Series)

Rookie of the Year (1955)

Robert Lyden: Willie

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Mr. Cully : Willie!

  Willie : Yes, Mr. Cully?

  Mr. Cully : From your profound interest in that ticker, I take it that something earth-shattering is coming over?

  Willie : Mr. Cully! It's the starting pitchers for the World Series!

• [last lines] 

  Willie : Mr. Cully! You're gonna be famous! You might even be in Ripley! Mr. Cully - you've just been hit by the longest home run on record!

• Willie : The press box of the Yankee Stadium? On the Opening Day of the Series! Wow, would I like to be there now!

  Mike Cronin : Well, kid, maybe I can fix it for you. Not today or tomorrow, but maybe the third or fourth day.

  Willie : Are you kiddin'?

  Mike Cronin : You think I'd kid about a sacred thing like that? Haven't we been workin' together, man and boy, for five months now?

• Mike Cronin : [as he types]  Hey - quit readin' over my shoulder; bad manners.

  Willie : What is it? A novel? Cowboys and Indians?

  Mike Cronin : No. You can call it a passport - a ticket from here to there. Maybe a stay of execution. But whatever you call it, it's manna from heaven!