Take Me Out to the Ball Game

Mar 9, 1949

1h 33m

★ 6.7

A Homerun Of Laughter, Romance And Fun

Overview

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.

Genres

Comedy

Music

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Take Me Out to the Ball Game Trailers

Cast

Dennis Ryan

Frank Sinatra

K.C. Higgins

Esther Williams

Eddie O'Brien

Gene Kelly

Shirley Delwyn

Betty Garrett

Joe Lorgan

Edward Arnold

Nat Goldberg

Jules Munshin

Michael Gihuly

Richard Lane

Slappy Burke

Tom Dugan

Child (uncredited)

Jackie Jackson

Baseball Fan (uncredited)

Edna Harris

Sally Forrest

Girl in Bathing Suit (uncredited)

Roberta Johnson

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