Who is alibi ike

More like this. Storyline Edit. Rookie pitcher Francis "Ike" Farrell comes seemingly out of nowhere to help the Cubs go for the pennant. His idiosyncratic ways, which include excuses and alibis for everything, drive his manager and fiancee crazy in this baseball farce. Not Rated. Add content advisory. Did you know Edit. Trivia This film holds the world record for a studio production with one of its starring actors surviving the longest after its release.

Olivia de Havilland has survived 85 years and counting since this film was released. Goofs The plot hinges on the lights being turned out at the Chicago Cubs' ballpark during a night game, so the hero can change into a uniform.

Wrigley Field, the Cubs' home field, did not have lights installed until Quotes Cap : Good pitchers don't turn up every four years like Presidents. Connections Featured in Sports on the Silver Screen User reviews 23 Review.

Top review. Plenty of Laughs. Brown's trilogy of baseball films has him playing Frank X. Farrell who gets the nickname of Alibi Ike because he comes up with an alibi no matter what's thrown his way. He joins the Chicago Cubs and becomes a wiz hitter and pitcher but a woman Olivia de Havilland falls in love with him and tries to change his ways.

I really wasn't expecting too much out of this film but was pleasantly surprised at how many laughs Brown gives off. I'm sure many will find him annoying but the jokes were written very well and Brown carries them without a hitch.

The highlight is when Brown tells his fielders to sit down behind the pitcher's mound so they can watch him strikeout the side. Many real-life baseball players can be seen on various teams and even Jim Thorpe can be spotted. FAQ 1. List: Wacky baseball. Details Edit. Release date June 15, United States. United States. Don disculpas. Warner Bros. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 1 hour 12 minutes. Black and White. Related news.

Cap had him in there regular the last few exhibition games and told the newspaper boys a week before the season opened that he was goin' to start him in Kane's place. It rained down in Cincinnati one day and somebody organized a little game o' cards. They was shy two men to make six and ast I and Carey to play.

I and Carey give each other the wink, and sure enough, he was just as ig'orant about poker as billiards. About the second hand, the pot was opened two or three ahead of him, and they was three in when it come his turn. It cost a buck, and he throwed in two. Well, it was raised back at him and then he made another mistake and raised again. They was only three left in when the draw come.

Smitty'd opened with a pair o' kings and he didn't help 'em. Ike stood pat. The guy that'd raised him back was flushin' and he didn't fill. So Smitty checked and Ike bet and didn't get no call. He tossed his hand away, but I grabbed it and give it a look. He had king, queen, jack and two tens. Alibi Ike he must have seen me peekin', for he leaned over and whispered to me. They was another pot that he come into with tens and fours.

It was tilted a couple o' times and two o' the strong fellas drawed ahead of Ike. They each drawed one. So Ike throwed away his little pair and come out with four tens. And they was four treys against him.

Carey'd looked at Ike's discards and then he says:. Well, we hadn't had no pay day yet, and after a wile everybody except Ike was goin' shy. I could see him gettin' restless and I was wonderin' how he'd make the get-away. He tried two or three times. Trains leavin' Cincinnati in the middle o' the day don't carry no ball clubs. But he don't know where I'm goin' to be next week. That's why I ought to wire and tell him. Well, by this time he'd lost two or three pots and he was desperate.

We was playin' just as fast as we could, because we seen we couldn't hold him much longer. But he was tryin' so hard to frame an escape that he couldn't pay no attention to the cards, and it looked like we'd get his whole pile away from him if we could make him stick.

The telephone saved him. The minute it begun to ring, five of us jumped for it. But Ike was there first. Well, we set round a wile talkin' it over, and pretty soon the telephone rung again.

Smitty answered it. It was a friend of his'n from Hamilton and he wanted to know why Smitty didn't hurry down. He was the one that had called before and Ike had told him he was Smitty. It costs money to buy collars and to send telegrams from Cincinnati to your old man in Texas and keep him posted on the health o' your uncle in Cedar Rapids, D. And you ought to heard him out there on that field!

They wasn't a day when he didn't pull six or seven, and it didn't make no difference whether he was goin' good or bad. If he popped up in the pinch he should of made a base hit and the reason he didn't was so-and-so.

And if he cracked one for three bases he ought to had a home run, only the ball wasn't lively, or the wind brought it back, or he tripped on a lump o' dirt, roundin' first base. They was one afternoon in New York when he beat all records. Big Marquard was workin' against us and he was good. In the first innin' Ike hit one clear over that right field stand, but it was a few feet foul.

Then he got another foul and then the count come to two and two. Then Rube slipped one acrost on him and he was called out. I thought it was three and one, and I took a strike. The score board had it wrong. Well, in New York's part o' the innin' Doyle cracked one and Ike run back a mile and a half and caught it with one hand.

We was all sayin' what a whale of a play it was, but he had to apologize just the same as for gettin' struck out. Along in the fifth we was one run to the bad and Ike got on with one out. On the first ball throwed to Smitty, Ike went down. The ball was outside and Meyers throwed Ike out by ten feet. You could see Ike's lips movin' all the way to the bench and when he got there he had his piece learned. Well, Smitty went out and they wasn't no more argument till they come in for the next innin'.

Then Cap opened it up. Which is right? I never told you to take that for a sign, did I? They couldn't none of us answer that and they wouldn't of been no more said if Ike had of shut up. But wile we was settin' there Carey got on with two out and stole second clean. I thought you claimed I give you the hit and run. Cap prob'ly would of hit him with a bat, only just about that time Doyle booted one on Hayes and Carey come acrost with the run that tied. And Ike goes up there with orders to bunt and cracks the first ball into that right-field stand!

It was fair this time, and we're two ahead, but I didn't think about that at the time. I was too busy watchin' Cap's face. First he turned pale and then he got red as fire and then he got blue and purple, and finally he just laid back and busted out laughin'. So we wasn't afraid to laugh ourselfs when we seen him doin' it, and when Ike come in everybody on the bench was in hysterics. But instead o' takin' advantage, Ike had to try and excuse himself.

His play was to shut up and he didn't know how to make it. So I walloped at the first one to fool 'em, and I didn't have no intention o' hittin' it. But he come with a hook and I met it right square where I was swingin' to go under the fast one. Pretend a fast one's comin' and then try to miss it. It's a good thing to know and Ike'd ought to be willin' to pay for the lesson. So I'm goin' to make it a hundred instead o' fifty.

The game wound up 3 to 1. The fine didn't go, because Ike hit like a wild man all through that trip and we made pretty near a clean-up. The night we went to Philly I got him cornered in the car and I says to him:. What'd you do that for, swing that time against Marquard when you was told to bunt? You've saw Cap's wife, o' course. Well, her sister's about twict as good-lookin' as her, and that's goin' some. Cap took his missus down to St.

Louis the second trip and the other one come down from St. Joe to visit her. Her name is Dolly, and some doll is right. Well, Cap was goin' to take the two sisters to a show and he wanted a beau for Dolly.

He left it to her and she picked Ike. He'd hit three on the nose that afternoon--off'n Sallee, too. They fell for each other that first evenin'. Cap told us how it come off. She begin flatterin' Ike for the star game he'd played and o' course he begin excusin' himself for not doin' better. So she thought he was modest and it went strong with her. And she believed everything he said and that made her solid with him--that and her make-up.

They was together every mornin' and evenin' for the five days we was there. In the afternoons Ike played the grandest ball you ever see, hittin' and runnin' the bases like a fool and catchin' everything that stayed in the park. I told Cap, I says: "You'd ought to keep the doll with us and he'd make Cobb's figures look sick. Well, for the next three weeks Ike had a letter to read every day and he'd set in the clubhouse readin' it till mornin' practice was half over.

Cap didn't say nothin' to him, because he was goin' so good. But I and Carey wasted a lot of our time tryin' to get him to own up who the letters was from. Fine chanct!