Until the Russians found him.Ĭincinnati Post TV columnist Mary Wood called O'Toole From Moscow "delightfully fantastic" in her review the next day. The Reds gave O'Toole a shot, and he ended up being a better slugger than Ted Kluszewski. Mushnick burst in to explain that Joseph – whom he calls "O'Toole" – is an outfielder wanting a tryout. In Cincinnati, Bishofsky went to the Reds office to turn himself in to a bewildered general manager. So Mushnick and a strapping young, naive Russian bodyguard named Joseph Bishofsky (played by Chuck Connors, who had a brief career with the Dodgers and Cubs before starring as TV's Rifleman) hopped a train and go as far as their money took them – which was Cincinnati. In the play, set at the height of the Cold War "Red Scare," a Russian embassy staffer named Mushnick was being sent back to Moscow from New York because of his high absenteeism due to attending Brooklyn Dodgers games at Ebbets Field.
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