While playing baseball, Verne meets a new friend. Chris, who sports a baseball cap, can play like nobody's business and becomes the "hit" of the game. He and Chris begin to pal around and end up in the comic book store. Seeing an old poster of a circus long since disbanded, Verne and Chris, with Marty in the back of the DeLorean, head back to April 7, 1933 to see the circus in its heyday (the poster had advertised the circus's run for the weekend from April 7 to 10, 1933). The circus is in serious financial trouble. The farmer whose land hosts the circus, Mac Tannen, is about to take over the circus because the owners are unable to pay the rent to him for the fairgrounds. When the star high-wire act quits, Verne and Chris come to the rescue by taking over the act. Verne finds out that his