The Worcester Quahogs are a mediocre minor league team owned by Bud Templeton and managed by his son Trey, who is made Executive Vice President by his father in order to give the feckless young man a job. Trey uses the experience as fodder for a book about baseball that he hopes will win him literary fame. He is distracted from this dream by Nae Ann Embree, a cheerleader for the team who becomes the focus of a love quadrangle, and the romantic catch-and-release which follows combines two of America's most beloved native products; baseball and screwball comedy.