Extra Innings story
Ex-baseball player Ed Hamler, lame from an injury and forced to retire early, is given a baseball card from the early 1900s that transports Hamler to the past to be the player he used to be. Directed by: Doug Jackson. Story by: Tom Palmer.
13 total · 8 major · 5 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| escape from reality | major | Ed shirked participation in normal society in favor of reliving his past glories as a baseball player. |
| facing job insecurity | major | Ed's chronic inability to get a job was putting a strain on his marriage. |
| husband and wife | major | Ed and Cindy. |
| love vs. career | major | The story was about Ed choosing between his wife and baseball. |
| mobility impairment | major | Ed was sort of depressed because he had a busted leg and could no longer play professional baseball. |
| the game of baseball | major | Ed and his teenage neighbor Paula were both extraordinarily enthusiastic about baseball. |
| time portal | major | The old baseball card could turn into a time portal on demand for Ed. |
| what if I found myself in the past | major | Ed had a magic baseball card that he used to travel back in time to 1909. |
| coping with a failing marriage | minor | Ed and Cindy's marriage was falling apart because Cindy couldn't handle Ed's inability to reintegrate back into society after retiring early from his career as a professional baseball player. |
| disintegrating romantic relationship | minor | Ed and Cindy's marriage was falling apart because Cindy couldn't handle Ed's inability to reintegrate back into society after retiring early from his career as a professional baseball player. |