"The Mighty Casey" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.
The episode title is a reference to the baseball poem "Casey at the Bat".
"Mouth" McGarry, the manager of a broken-down baseball team on its last legs, allows a robot named Casey to play on his team. Casey has the ability to throw super-fast balls that cannot be hit. Eventually, after Casey is beaned by a ball and given a physical examination, the Nati...
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"The Mighty Casey" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.
The episode title is a reference to the baseball poem "Casey at the Bat".
"Mouth" McGarry, the manager of a broken-down baseball team on its last legs, allows a robot named Casey to play on his team. Casey has the ability to throw super-fast balls that cannot be hit. Eventually, after Casey is beaned by a ball and given a physical examination, the National League finds out and rules that Casey must be taken off the team because he is not human. Casey's inventor, Dr. Stillman, gives him an "artificial" heart to have him classified as human. Now that Casey has human emotions, he refuses to throw his fast balls anymore. He says that he feels empathy with the batter and does not want to ruin the batter's career by striking him out. With the team sure to fold soon, Dr. Stillman gives McGarry Casey's blueprints as a souveneir. Glancing at them, McGarry suddenly has a brilliant idea, as he and the...
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