It Happens Every Spring
- IMDb link: 0041514
- IMDb rating: 6.8 (2,066 votes) Search
- Genres: Comedy, Sci-Fi, Family, Sport
- Director: Ray Milland, Lloyd Bacon
- Cast: Jean Peters, Paul Douglas, Ed Begley and others
- Release date: 1 Jun 1949
- Release year: 1949
- Runtime: 87 minutes
- Country: United States
- Keywords: title is a complete sentence, baseball, world series, professor, laboratory, discovery, leave of absence, baseball movie, hotfoot, st. louis missouri
Plot
Storyline
A scientist discovers a formula that makes a baseball which is repelled by wood. He promptly sets out to exploit his discovery.
After Professor, Vernon K Simpson discovers a wood repellent, while trying to create a repellent of rodents, like mice. While he and Deborah are in the laboratory room, a baseball is hit into his laboratory room and breaks his chemicals' glass bottles his original idea changes, when he discovers that the chemicals that remixed create a wood repellent. The discovery leads Vernon K Simpson, and in fear of being seen my the Greenleaf family, he changes his name, to King Kelly in fear. He then starts a baseball career, and leads the team of Saint Lious to a World Series Championship. After getting the last out of game 7 his hand is permanently injured by a barehanded catch, ending his baseball career. With his baseball career expired, he meets up the Greenleaf family, again.
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