  "the mighty casey" is an episode of the american television anthology series the twilight zone. its title is a reference to the baseball poem "casey at the bat". ==opening narration==  ==plot== "mouth" mcgarry, the manager of a broken-down baseball team called the hoboken zephyrs on its last legs, allows a robot named casey to play on his team. casey has the ability to throw super-fast balls that cannot be hit. eventually, after casey is beaned by a ball and given a physical examination, the national league finds out and rules that casey must be taken off the team because he is not human. casey's inventor, dr. stillman, gives him an artificial heart to have him classified as human. now that casey has human emotions, he refuses to throw his fast balls anymore. he says that he feels empathy with the batter and does not want to ruin the batter's career by striking him out. with the team sure to fold soon, dr. stillman gives mcgarry casey's blueprints as a souvenir. glancing at them, mcgarry suddenly has a brilliant idea, as he runs off after dr. stillman to tell him his idea. rod serling narrated that mcgarry and dr. stillman's idea worked where they have a pitching staff of casey robots. ==closing narration== {{cquote|once upon a time, there was a major league baseball team called the hoboken zephyrs, who, during the last year of their existence, wound up in last place and shortly thererafter wound up in oblivion. there's a rumor, unsubstantiated, of course, that a manager named mcgarry took them to the west coast and wound up with several pennants 
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