After the Dodgers win the 1955 world series, a young high school baseball player is pressured to continue his career in baseball while fighting constant sleep deprivation and a secret urge to pursue a career in science.

A young baseball fan sleeps through the 1955 Dodgers world series after spending the night preparing for an underground science competition.

After a young baseball fan sleeps through the Brooklyn Dodgers world series, leading him to spend his life developing a time machine to experience the game, he dies before he is able to use it from a sleep deprivation-induced heart attack.

• In the opening scene, he walks the street as he realizes he slept through the world series seeing all the homemade confetti everywhere.
• Hears radio reruns of the Three Blind Mice
• Dies from a heart attack induced by lack of sleep, showing the importance of sleep
• He is unable to complete the time machine in time due to a lack of science education in his earlier school years.