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The Fable of the Kid Who Shifted His Ideals to Golf and Finally Became a Baseball Fan and Took the Only Known Cure (1916)

The Fable of the Kid Who Shifted His Ideals to Golf and Finally Became a Baseball Fan and Took the Only Known Cure poster
Genre
silent film
Country
United States
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How it feels

A young boy switches his focus from golf to baseball. After becoming obsessed with baseball, he finds a strange way to cure his fanaticism.

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What happens

The Fable of the Kid Who Shifted His Ideals to Golf and Finally Became a Baseball Fan and Took the Only Known Cure is a 1916 American short comedy silent film pertaining to baseball, the director unnamed and distributed by Golden Film Company. Filming taking place in Chicago, it was released in cinemas on October 4, 1916, in the United States. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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