62 Homers: A Red Shuttleworth Play

62 Homers

a play by

Red Shuttleworth

Red Shuttleworth wrote 62 Homers in 1992... when it seemed remotely possible that a Major League slugger could break Roger Maris' home run record... could slug 62 homers.  The play was written in the innocent time before steroidal juicing became farcically common among professional and college baseball players.  The play was soon to become a culturally pointless anachronism, but at the time....

So... 62 Homers  (cast of two women, one young girl, and four men), set contemporaneously, is about a Colorado Rockies slugger, Pony Rivers, who chases the home run record... and tries to cope with the temptations and hazards of fame.

Red Shuttleworth (Assistant Baseball Coach, Big Bend C.C. Vikings)

and Luke Appling Shuttleworth (BatBoy, BBCC Vikings), March 1993 

62 Homers received a measure of development and its first staged reading at the Utah Shakespearean Festival on August 12, 1993. The reading was directed by Rod Ceballos.  Special thanks to USF's New Plays-in-Progress director, the late Doug Cook, and to the program's former dramaturg, Jerry L. Crawford.

The cast for the USF reading of 62 Homers featured:

              Peter Massey...........................Pony Rivers

              Jennifer Alexander..................Cloudburst Caldwell

              Katie Helms.............................Apaloosa

              Tom Kelley..............................Bubba

              John Oswald............................Charles Butterman

              Larry Bull................................Turk Caldwell

              Erika Rolfsrud.........................Rosemary Rivers

The 62 Homers Team: John Oswald, Erika Rolfsrud, Peter Massey,

Katie Helms, Larry Bull, Rod Ceballos, Jennifer Alexander, and Tom Kelly.