Screen Directors Playhouse (TV Series)

Rookie of the Year (1955)

Patrick Wayne: Lyn Goodhue

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Quotes 

• Mike Cronin : You're out of the rookie class, kid. You're a regular on any man's team.

  Lyn Goodhue : Well, I hope I can live up to the uniform. It's what I've been hoping for all my life.

• Mike Cronin : You never played in the minors, Lyn.

  Lyn Goodhue : I played with 'em, not in 'em.

  Mike Cronin : What?

  Lyn Goodhue : That's my one and only joke. You see, Coaltown's a coal mining town. I played on the home team; that's why I said... oh, jeez...

  Mike Cronin : ... Coaltown. That's in, uh...

  Lyn Goodhue : West Virginia, sir.

  Mike Cronin : Oh, you don't have to call me sir. Makes me feel like Methuselah. Or back in the army; I don't know which is worse.

  Lyn Goodhue : I'm sorry; you're not so old. I mean, for a man your age, you look OK.

• Lyn Goodhue : I still can't believe it, somehow - me playin' in the Series. I keep thinkin' I'm gonna wake up and find I've been dreamin'.