Aging baseball manager Frank "Butterfingers" Maguire (Lloyd Nolan) is a hard-liner when it comes to coaching his Brooklyn team, whose members hope to oust him with a petition. But then Frank falls in love with the team's owner (Carole Landis) and also manages to stop a young baseball player from giving up on his career. In the end, Frank ignores the petition and takes his team all the way to the pennant!