" Kelly pulled out propagandistic, anti-fraternization pamphlets, with titles such as:Think It Over, AmericansThings You are Required to Know and Do Before Marrying OrientalsBut Will Your Family Accept It?Kelly""s marriage would mean he would be prohibited from taking his foreign-born wife to the US.Cobb who was blacklisted.]The tale was inspired and loosely based on a real-life incident over the Fourth of July weekend in 1947 in Hollister, California, (publicized in an issue ofHarper""s Magazinein a January 1951 article titled "Cyclists"" Raid" by Frank Rooney), when about four thousand people, composed of motorcyclists and other visitors and enthusiasts, roared into the town over a two day period, and overwhelmed the facilities.When the parade concluded, Susan revealed that she was in cahoots with Fred, when she manipulatively encouraged Doris o invite him to join them for Thanksgiving dinner at 3 pm that afternoon.She yearns for a singing career and doesn""t want to give it up to marry him.Later, she overhears them quarreling on the road near her home.Confiding in the lonely, melancholic Miss Morrison, the young woman asks if she understands.To help the young girl understand, she relates the story of her life - she was formerly an opera star named Marcia Morney (Jeanette MacDonald) in Louis Napoleon III""s Paris of 1865.Ray was also able to reconcile himself (by playing catch) with the ghost of his long-dead estranged father John Kinsella (Dwier Brown), another ball player (semi-professional).