Synopsis
The Wolves baseball team gets steamed when they find they've been inherited by one K.C. Higgins, a suspected "fathead" who intends to take an active interest in running the team. But K.C. turns outs to be a beautiful woman who really knows her baseball. Second baseman Dennis Ryan promptly falls in love. But his playboy roommate Eddie O'Brien has his own notions about how to treat the new lady owner and some unsavory gamblers have their own ideas about how to handle Eddie.
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Cast
- Frank SinatraDennis Ryan
- Esther WilliamsK.C. Higgins
- Gene KellyEddie O'Brien
- Betty GarrettShirley Delwyn
- Edward ArnoldJoe Lorgan
- Jules MunshinNat Goldberg
- Richard LaneMichael Gihuly
- Tom DuganSlappy Burke
- Jackie JacksonChild (uncredited)
- Edna HarrisBaseball Fan (uncredited)
Recommendations
- 100
TV Guide Magazine
While there's not much baseball played here, this is an amiable film, marked by the enjoyable cast and some lively, if not memorable, music. - 80
Time Out
Enormously enjoyable. - 70
Chicago Reader
The plot is typical fluff—Kelly and Sinatra join Esther Williams's baseball team at the turn of the century—but the production values are, as always, worth the price of admission. - 70
Variety
Take Me Out to the Ball Game, backgrounded by an early-day baseball yarn, is short on story, but has some amusing moments - and Gene Kelly. - 60
The New York Times
For all its high spots, however, the show lacks consistent style and pace, and the stars are forced to clown and grimace much more than becomes their speed. Actually, the plotted humor is conspicuously bush-league stuff. Don't be surprised if you see people getting up for a seventh-inning stretch. - 60
The New Yorker
This asinine story just about smothers the good-natured hoofing. - 60
Los Angeles Times
A slight but high-spirited musical that entertains without ever really grabbing you. [29 Jan 1988, p.21]
