This typically funny Pete Smith short features Johnny Price, ace pitcher of the Oakland Pacific League team -- this was a good ten years before the Dodgers and Giants left Brooklyn and Manhattan to head off to California. He throws multiple balls to various locations simultaneously, catches balls with his shirt or gets a hit with the tip of the bat, bats upside down and hanging from bars, and other wild stunts, all clearly shown with slow-motion photography.
Price did achieve a major league contract with the Cleveland Indians -- as pre-game entertainment. He then went on tour throughout the US and the Caribbean doing his act, before retiring to San Francisco about 1960. He died a suicide in 1967.
Price did achieve a major league contract with the Cleveland Indians -- as pre-game entertainment. He then went on tour throughout the US and the Caribbean doing his act, before retiring to San Francisco about 1960. He died a suicide in 1967.
