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When Paul tries out for the Kennedy junior high Wildcats baseball team, Kevin gets the coach's attention when he instructs him at bat. Coach Ted Baker ( Harrison Page ) asks Kevin to come up to bat and he smashes a line drive to right field, impressing him so much he asks him to try out for the team. But Kevin wonders why he keeps making the cut even though his performance is bad and wants to know why. He finds out that Coach Baker is his father's old Marine Corps buddy in the Korean War, and Jack had in fact saved his life in battle. Jack starts going to Kevin's tryouts and talks with the coach, but when Kevin sees his name crossed off the cut list, he's relieved that he wasn't receiving favoritism after all. He hits one out of the park, pretending like he's Bobby Thomson of the New York Giants baseball team in the National League pennant game of 1951. Or as Kevin says: "Maybe that's not exactly how it happened, but that's how it should have happened. And that's how I like to remember it." Guest-starring: Harrison Page as Coach Ted Baker. Absent: Olivia d'Abo as Karen Arnold.
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