Escolar Documentos
Profissional Documentos
Cultura Documentos
By
William E. Spear
Summary
Jake Alston’s entire world is playing baseball with his
father. But when his dad is killed in World War One, Jake’s
world is destroyed.
15 of complex relationships.
22 Nineteen-fourteen.
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45 MUSIC.
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46 JAKE: I’ll catch dad. You pitch like you did for
47 Chicago.
52 Series.
58 JAKE: Two.
62 JAKE: Ty Cobb.
84 curve again.
98 MITT.
102 MR. ALSTON: Thanks dad. Okay Jake, we’ve got the batter
111 Eight.
115 MR. ALSTON: Let’s tell your mother we won the World
116 Series.
130 NARRATOR ONE: But on May Seventh, the Lusitania was sunk
165 Services.
173 ANNOUNCER ONE: America did not enter the War in Nineteen-
180 JAKE: That was way high. Go back to the curve but don’t
189 ANNOUNCER TWO: Jake would not play catch with his father
194 ANNOUNCER TWO: For many months, Jake’s father spent more
202 ANNOUNCER TWO: Christmas had many gifts under the family
215 MR. ALSTON: (BEAT) Happy New Year Edna. (BEAT) Edna?
220 GRANDFATHER: The world’s gone crazy Jakey. And your dad’s
226 ANNOUNCER TWO: Three weeks later, Jake’s father left for
227 the First World War. Mr. Alston and over two
230 The ship left Hoboken, New Jersey out of the same
240 That the Yanks are coming, The Yanks are coming;
245 And we won’t come back till it’s over Over There.