Released from prison on parole, the "Gas-Pipe Kid" returns to his home in the slums to find his mother dead and his father evicted. He is arrested for beating up the landlord but escapes with the help of Ida Hunt, his sweetheart. Years later he is a baseball star known as Bat Shugrue and is widely idolized by boys who read about his clean living,
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Cast
Rockliffe Fellowes
Gas-Pipe Kid / Bat Shugrue
Fritzi Ridgeway
Ida Hunt
Buddy Messinger
Jimmy Hunt
Hayden Stevenson
Kelsey Lewis
Emmett King
Judge Drury
William Welsh
Warden
Fred R. Stanton
Lute Clotz
William Robert Daly
The Kid's Father
Jim Farley
Murray Jessop
Sidney De Gray
Dud Adams
John Hatton
Jimmy (at 8 years)
Mike Gaffner
Landlord
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