This one could have been entitled “The Woman Of Many Absurd Hats.” It would have been a better title.
If you’re looking for a tidy little sports drama, It Happened In Flatbush (1942) might be up your alley. A retired baseball player, notorious for botching the play that could have won his Brooklyn team the pennant, has been coaching in the minor leagues in obscurity for seven years since, and now he’s being called up to the big leagues in the manager’s role. But if he’s going to help his old Brooklyn team win, he has to romance the team owner into upgrading the team, calm the family waters, and get over his own crisis of self-confidence. It’s one of those tight & tidy dramas emblematic of the era, and if it doesn’t blow your socks off, it also doesn’t disappoint.
