Larry Mondello convinces Beaver to play catch using Ward's valuable autographed baseball, with disastrous results.Larry Mondello convinces Beaver to play catch using Ward's valuable autographed baseball, with disastrous results.Larry Mondello convinces Beaver to play catch using Ward's valuable autographed baseball, with disastrous results.
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- Joe Connelly(uncredited)
- Bob Mosher(uncredited)
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- TriviaSeven players are mentioned as having autographed the baseball: Babe Ruth (playing career: 1914-1935) Lou Gehrig (1923-1939) Lefty Grove (1925-1941) Augie Gahlan (1934-1949) Kiki Kuyler (1921-1938) Bill Dickey (1928-1943) Grover Cleveland Alexander (1911-1930)
- GoofsThere was never a season that all seven players on Ward's baseball were in the Major Leagues together.
- Quotes
Ward Cleaver: You know, it's funny. You boys hardly know these players' names. When I was a boy, I thought they'd never be forgotten.
Wallace 'Wally' Cleaver: Yeah, but now they got a whole bunch of new guys who will never be forgotten!
Ward Cleaver: Guess that's the way it goes, Wally!
Featured review
The devil went down to Mayfield...
... and his name is Larry Mondello.
Ward brings in a prized memento from his childhood - a baseball with the signatures of some of the greats of the day. He has purchased a small pedestal to display it on, and places it on a bookshelf in his library. Larry Mondello comes over to see Beaver, and when Beaver shows him the baseball his first reaction is to tell Beaver to take the ball outside and play catch with it. Beaver's parents are gone, then Wally leaves, so Larry says nobody will know. Beaver holds fast...for about 45 seconds and then out they go to play catch. Of course the ball gets away from them. Of course a truck runs over it. Of course Larry starts saying, YOUR father, YOUR baseball, YOUR problem to Beaver.
The two try to cover things up by putting a bunch of fake signatures on the baseball and putting it back on Ward's bookshelf, where it came from. But it's discovered by, of all people, Fred Rutherford. This makes Ward even angrier than he normally would be, realizing what has happened. Complications ensue.
Beaver has a real problem with not respecting the property of others. He did this in another episode concerning Ward's golf clubs, and he did it earlier in this episode when he used Wally's toothbrush to clean his shoes. But he had a real problem with giving in to peer pressure when it came to big things, and in particular giving in to Larry Mondello, who was always unscathed by the results of his own bad advice.
June is oddly apologetic about Beaver's behavior, probably because she did not value Ward's baseball. When it came to things she did care about she was definitely not the apologist.
Ward brings in a prized memento from his childhood - a baseball with the signatures of some of the greats of the day. He has purchased a small pedestal to display it on, and places it on a bookshelf in his library. Larry Mondello comes over to see Beaver, and when Beaver shows him the baseball his first reaction is to tell Beaver to take the ball outside and play catch with it. Beaver's parents are gone, then Wally leaves, so Larry says nobody will know. Beaver holds fast...for about 45 seconds and then out they go to play catch. Of course the ball gets away from them. Of course a truck runs over it. Of course Larry starts saying, YOUR father, YOUR baseball, YOUR problem to Beaver.
The two try to cover things up by putting a bunch of fake signatures on the baseball and putting it back on Ward's bookshelf, where it came from. But it's discovered by, of all people, Fred Rutherford. This makes Ward even angrier than he normally would be, realizing what has happened. Complications ensue.
Beaver has a real problem with not respecting the property of others. He did this in another episode concerning Ward's golf clubs, and he did it earlier in this episode when he used Wally's toothbrush to clean his shoes. But he had a real problem with giving in to peer pressure when it came to big things, and in particular giving in to Larry Mondello, who was always unscathed by the results of his own bad advice.
June is oddly apologetic about Beaver's behavior, probably because she did not value Ward's baseball. When it came to things she did care about she was definitely not the apologist.
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- AlsExGal
- Jun 14, 2024
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- Runtime30 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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