Damn Yankees

ACT ONE

Meg and Joe Boyd are sitting in front of their television set. Meg attempts to have a conversation with her husband, Joe, but he is too engrossed with the Washington Senators baseball game he is watching, (“Six Months Out of Every Year”). The game ends with the Senators losing to the Yankees, as Joe daydreams of being the baseball hero that would sell his soul to the devil to be a “long ball hitter.”

Mysteriously, he finds a stranger on his porch, Applegate, who engages him in a conversation about baseball. After being accused of speaking to “thin air” by his wife’s friends, he realizes that Applegate is the devil himself. Applegate offers him a chance to save the Senators by becoming Joe Hardy, a 22 year-old baseball star. Tempted by an opportunity to help his favorite team, but being a smart business man, he insists on an escape clause in case he decides he doesn't like being a baseball player. Reluctantly, Applegate agrees and tells Joe that has until the last day of the