Play Ball (serial)

{{short description|1925 film}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2014}} {{Infobox film | name = Play Ball | image = Play Ball (1925 serial) - 2.jpg | caption = Advertisement | director = [[Spencer Gordon Bennet]] | producer = Spencer Gordon Bennet | writer = Frank Leon Smith | starring = [[Walter Miller (actor)|Walter Miller]]<br>[[Allene Ray]] | cinematography = Horace G. Plympton | editing = | distributor = [[Pathé Exchange]] | released = {{film date|1925|7|19}} | runtime = 10 episodes 2 [[film reel|reels]] each | country = United States | language = [[Silent film|Silent]] (English [[intertitle]]s) }}

'''''Play Ball''''' is a 1925 American [[drama film|drama]] [[film serial]] directed by [[Spencer Gordon Bennet]] and starring [[Walter Miller (actor)|Walter Miller]] and [[Allene Ray]]. The film is now considered to be [[lost film|lost]].<ref name="silentera">{{cite web |url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/P/PlayBall1925.html |title=Progressive Silent Film List: ''Play Ball'' |access-date=2008-02-16|work=silentera.com}}</ref> Another 1925 film, a comedy short starring [[Chester Conklin]] and [[Milburn Morante]], also used the title ''Play Ball''.

==Cast== * [[Walter Miller (actor)|Walter Miller]] as Jack Rollins * [[Allene Ray]] as Doris Sutton * [[Harry Semels]] as Count Segundo * [[J. Barney Sherry]] as Thomas W. Sutton * Mary Milnor as Maybelle Pratt * Wally Oettel as Rutger Farnsworth * Franklyn Hanna as Senator Hornell * [[John McGraw]] as self<ref name="silentera"/> * [[New York Giants (baseball)|New York Giants baseball team]]<ref name="silentera"/>

==Chapter titles== {{div col}} #"To the Rescue" #"The Flaming Float" #"Betrayed" #"The Decoy Wire" #"Face to Face" #"The Showdown" #"A Mission of Hate" #"Double Peril" #"Into Segundo’s Hands" #"A Home Plate Wedding" {{div col end}}

==See also== * [[List of film serials]] * [[List of film serials by studio]] * [[List of lost films]]

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== {{commons category|Play Ball (serial)}} *{{IMDb title|id=0016227|title=Play Ball}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Play Ball (serial)}} [[Category:1925 films]] [[Category:1925 American films]] [[Category:1925 drama films]] [[Category:1925 lost films]] [[Category:1925 English-language films]] [[Category:American black-and-white films]] [[Category:American silent serial films]] [[Category:English-language drama films]] [[Category:Films directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet]] [[Category:Lost American silent drama films]] [[Category:Pathé Exchange film serials]]