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September third, nineteen fifty, here's the episode Baseball.
Speaker 2: Murder The Adventures of the Saint starring Vincent Price. The Saint,
based on characters created by Leslie Charteris and known to
villions from books, magazines, and motion pictures The Robinhood of
Modern Crime, now comes transcribed to radio. Starring Hollywood's brilliant
and talented actor, Vincent Price. Says, the Saint.
Speaker 3: Gone to the ball game. I'm mister templar. It's a
great day for it. Didn't know you was fund the
baseball you found.
Speaker 4: The baseball, mister templated Lewis, I should have gone in
for baseball instead of becoming a cab jockey. Grown men
getting paid thousands of dollars for tossing a little ball
around two hours a day.
Speaker 5: Can you beat it? Can you? Mister Templar, I'm asking you.
Speaker 3: Can you beat it?
Speaker 5: Louis? I based for you can't beat it? Now?
Speaker 4: I'd like to live in the tal where I got
major league ball. The Bruce Socks here is all right,
but it's minor league. Do you think we'll ever get
a big league ball in this town, mister Templar, I
see you think we'll ever get big league ball?
Speaker 3: Mister Template.
Speaker 5: You can't quiet today, mister Temple. My silence, friend, Louis
is purely comparative.
Speaker 4: Oh well, since you're not feeling what, it's good you're
taking the afternoon of been reading about that father and
some of the Bruce Socks left in PHILM.
Speaker 5: Miller there are other interesting suppose to be the first
time in baseball father and son have played on the
same team.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, the old man just down from the majors
and the kid on his way up, all lefty was
great to his day though, and the kid will be
great too.
Speaker 5: They both playing today the way neither one.
Speaker 4: Bill ain't do the fish till tomorrow, and the old
man's got a game.
Speaker 3: Leg won't even be a uniform.
Speaker 4: That's what goes first in baseball. Miss the Temple of
the legs and my line of work. I know, I know,
mister Temple.
Speaker 3: You knows something funny. This rumors out about the Blue Socks.
Speaker 5: What kind of room he is doing?
Speaker 4: The rumors say the Socks are gonna do business lose
a ball game that maybe they should win.
Speaker 5: Nine tense Lewis, baseball is honest. You know that.
Speaker 3: Maybe it's so, but it's still gotta be played by humans.
Speaker 5: You'd better step on it, my cinecal friend, we're.
Speaker 4: Late, sure, mister Templar. Most likely nothing to the rumors anyway.
You know how it is driving a cab, you pick
up all sorts of things. Me, you don't do no
good to pick nothing up. I'm married.
Speaker 3: Hey, yeah, ahead, you head that, mister Templar. I said me,
it don't do no good to pick nothing up.
Speaker 5: I heard, Louis, I heard pretty funny. Huh, Louis, take
me out to the ballgame here, and you're right.
Speaker 6: The Hello, Lefty, thanks for coming, Saint, Sit down, sit up, dang,
I hope I'm not late.
Speaker 7: No, the game won't start for another ten minutes.
Speaker 5: How how's the leg, Lefty?
Speaker 7: That's improving, Saint?
Speaker 5: I was crime. It stays about the same, always with it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that it is that it is.
Speaker 5: Blue Stock's going to win today.
Speaker 6: You know something, Saint, I don't much care. Oh, don't
get me wrong. When I'm in there myself, I played
a win, so that's the only way I know. And
after the majors, you don't get very excited over the
blue socks.
Speaker 5: I guess not now.
Speaker 7: I'm just playing out the string. What comes after that?
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 6: I manage this job, no chance. I was too busy
spending my money. Well, the smart boys were learning the
inside of the game. But I had fun. I guess,
did you, Nah, Saint, There's only one thing in baseball
I care about. There's only one thing in the world
I care about. He's sitting across the field and the
dugout wearing number thirty three. My son, Mmm, I hear
Phil is a great picture, Lefty. Hey, he's good. He'll
be great he's going up next year. Maybe this heah,
I can look at him through the binoculars. M.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he looks like you, lefty.
Speaker 6: You really think so, Saint. I'm worried sick about him.
That's why I asked you. I know, that's why I'm here.
What are you worried about it? And I think they're
after him, Saint. The crowd with the dirty money's after him.
I never handle any dirty money, but I've been around
it and I can smell it.
Speaker 5: I can smell it. Now, what does Phil say? Do
you talk to him?
Speaker 7: I can't talk to him.
Speaker 6: Maybe you've read in the papers about our wonderful father
and son relationship.
Speaker 5: Uh, the kid hates me? How come left?
Speaker 6: And he was brought up by his mother and he
was brought up to hate me. I got out a
horse from her when the kid was two years old.
Speaker 7: I gave her a raw deal.
Speaker 5: He should hate me. You say you smell dirty money?
Do you have anything else to go on?
Speaker 6: Left ing rumors and a girl? No, I take that back,
a woman. Take another look through the glasses, Saint. She's
sitting in the box behind Phil, bending over to talk
to him. She's there every day.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yes, indeed, perhaps I should have taken that baseball.
That's just it.
Speaker 6: There's a woman who's got what she has go for
a twenty one year old kid just because he plays
baseball good ordinarily now, but she's got Phil hooked so
hard and so deep.
Speaker 7: I heard all over for her. He thinks it's romance.
Speaker 5: What do you think it is?
Speaker 7: I don't know, not exactly, Saint. Could you could you
see if you could find out?
Speaker 5: I can try what's her name lefting.
Speaker 6: Diane Courtney. She's staying at the Regent, same hotel the
ball club puts up at. I happen to hear the
kid making a cocktail date with her there for six
this evening.
Speaker 5: Good you see, if you can get him delayed a
few minutes.
Speaker 6: I will find out what she's trying to do. SAT,
find out who's in back of her. If they spoil
that kid, they won't, they won't let thanks Sat. And
there's anything I can never do.
Speaker 5: No worry about it. In fact, I'm looking forward to
meeting Mss Courtney. I'm sure we'll have a lot in
common baseball and well we'll find something. Do you mind
if I sit down here? The bar seems to be
rather crowded is crowded. As matter of fact, he was
crowded the minute you walked in.
Speaker 8: But I am waiting for someone.
Speaker 5: He might be late.
Speaker 8: That's very true.
Speaker 5: He won't be. What are we drinking? Martini?
Speaker 8: You say?
Speaker 5: So? Wait there too, martinis extra dry. I see that
you're a devitee of the national past time.
Speaker 8: That could very well be which national pastime?
Speaker 9: I saw you at the ball game today, Yes, I
go every day. Business is pleasure's that's supposed to me.
Baseball is a business for some Oh, thank you, wad.
Let's drink to pleasure.
Speaker 8: Let's just drink. I found that you run out of
tels long before you run out of drink.
Speaker 5: Comment on human frail thing, Well, what is.
Speaker 8: It you want? Friends?
Speaker 5: I appreciate your frankness. It's one of your concealed assets.
I'd like some answers about Phil Miller?
Speaker 8: Who are you?
Speaker 5: Don't you know? No, I'm the man who wants the
answers about Phil Miller? Should I start asking questions? Bill?
Speaker 10: Just Kim and we can't talk now, come up to
my room in fifteen minutes. Dat A wait, Well I
need help, believe me, I need.
Speaker 5: Help, say I thought we had a date, Diana. Was
I wrong?
Speaker 8: My friend's just leaving phil and I don't care for
your tongue.
Speaker 5: Oh, I'm sorry, Diana, I just thought that.
Speaker 6: Well.
Speaker 8: Remember I don't care for the jealousy routine. You're too
young for it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, well it's been charming. But I have a
cab waiting start. I'll see you again, definitely, yes, definitely
die Are you a capture? Oh, thank you, I have
one waiting here. He is, Wait till mister, no way, Louis,
I have a date in the hotel here in fifteen minutes.
You got a friend. I'm afraid now I'm just dreaming, Louis.
I'm not absolutely convinced about the purity of the lady's intentions.
This is a cause for complaint, you misinterpret Come up
the room eight oh w eight ten minutes or so
after I go up and knock on the door. I
get you. But if I shouldn't happen to meet a
cab at that particular time, come ahead of you.
Speaker 3: There's times in everybody's life when the least things he
means a tax like.
Speaker 5: You know, seeks sweet.
Speaker 8: Oh, come in, come in quickly. Someone makes you.
Speaker 11: Has already seen him. Frank, go ahead, and Jack and
I'm right behind you with something that resents any quick moves.
Speaker 12: Sneak up behind people pretty quietly. Frank used to be
in a girl guide. Shut the door down, Shut it. Oh,
my nosey friend here and me has business.
Speaker 8: I didn't tell the saint anything, Frank.
Speaker 5: I just boss.
Speaker 11: Don't like nosy guys like the Saint. I don't like
nosy guys like the Saint.
Speaker 8: Let him alone, Frank, You what good beating him up to.
Speaker 11: The bosses orders? Besides, my analyst tells me beat enough
nosy guys.
Speaker 5: I don't like.
Speaker 11: It's a good way of working up my aggressions.
Speaker 5: You're analyst. What's the matter? I can't get analyzed? What
does your analyst say about your carrying a gun? Didn't
he point out this is an artificial property or otherwise
charming personality?
Speaker 11: My analyst says, I shouldn't get insulted. It remarks by neurotics.
You think I'm a neurotic. If you ain't, no, Jackie
will be when I finished. Don't fall down yet, I
got four for.
Speaker 5: How do you want? Okay? Don it?
Speaker 11: I shouldn't have gotten mad, my analyst says, I shouldn't
let my emotions color my business life, mister.
Speaker 5: Temple, mister Templar, Oh, oh, Louis, mister Temple, you all right?
Should I call a doctor? I'm all right? I guess
what happened, mister Templar. I knocked on the door, just
like you said. When nobody answered, I come in. You
was on the floor. You're still on the floor, and
I think i'll stay here. Oh, got myself worked over,
Louis by psychoanalytical muscle boy. Oh, I should give you
some beautiful lumps. Yeah, real neat, professional job. Mhm. What's
this business caught in your chest? George? No, let's see. Huh,
thank you, mister put it there. This is part of
the warning. I guess what's you say? It says the fixer,
I fix anything. Hmm. What you'd call modest is he?
But fixes rarely are. I think we better have a
doctor spray you with some of cure crome. No, Louis,
I'm going to be too busy doing what sleeping? Hello shaint,
This is Lefty Miller. Oh, hello, Lefty, what time is it?
At midnight? He was sleep I went to bed early night,
had a rather trying evening.
Speaker 6: Look I've been finding out things, things about the crowd
with the dirty money, and who the head of it is.
Speaker 5: You mean, who the fixer is?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I found out what they're.
Speaker 7: Trying to get from the kid from Phil. Can you
meet me here at the hotel?
Speaker 5: Half an hour? Good?
Speaker 13: In the bar.
Speaker 7: I'm going after some more dope.
Speaker 5: Now you better wait until I get there. Lefty, their
rough boys, I.
Speaker 7: Know, but don't worry about me. See you in half
an hour.
Speaker 5: A waiter another Johnny Walker over eyes? Please?
Speaker 14: Yes, Look you're Simon Temple, aren't you? When they call
a saint? Sit down, Phil, I'm not sitting down. Got
some things to tell you. I've heard that you've been
asking questions about me, and I can guess who sent you.
Speaker 5: It was my father. Look, isn't it kind of late
for you? Phil? You're supposed to pitch Tom. I don't
need anybody to run my life for me, You or
my father either.
Speaker 14: Where is he when I was to meet him here?
But he hasn't shown up yet? Most likely up in
his room. All right, come on, let's go up and
see him. I want to straighten you both out together.
Speaker 5: You know what Roomy's in? Sure? Nine o' eight right.
How do you still a waiter? Yes, hold that drink
for me. I'll be back for it sooner or later. Hey, Dad,
open up, I want to talk to you. It doesn't
look like your father is in track the door? What's open?
What's but there's this dad? Look? I told you not
to look. He shot himself? Why why he did? Feeling
with a gun in his hand, but he didn't pull
the trigger. What are you trying to prove? Who did?
What's oil? Mister Temple? A Region Hotel, Louis in Good morning?
Good morning? Say I read in the papers this morning
about Lefty Miller.
Speaker 3: Oh Tom, why do you think he did it?
Speaker 5: Mister Temple? He didn't. The police can buy the suicide
theory for the time being. But it was murdered, Louis.
A friend of mine was murdered last night, and today
things are going to be done about it. What are
you going to do with the region? I'm going back
to the Young Ladies room where I had such an
interesting time last evening. This time I better go with you.
Perhaps you'd better, Louis, and I'm hiring you for the
whole afternoon. We've got a lot of ground to cover.
Speaker 4: It was a great ball player, mister Templar, seen him
in the world, serious one said, Yankee Stadium.
Speaker 5: Hard to believe he's dead. A man can be killed
in a lot of ways, Louis. He can be killed faster,
or he can be killed through what happens to his son.
I'm glad at least that didn't happen to the lefty.
You sure nobody isn't he called on the house phone
before we came up. I think this key will fit.
How did you get a key? I remember to make
an impression of the lock after that beating last evening.
There we're in nobody here, all right? Shut the door, Louis,
and lock it. Okay, what are you looking for, mister Templar?
The truth, Louis is my friend Philip Marlo would say
crime detection is an adventure in search of the hidden truth.
Speaker 3: I'm going to find the hidden truth looking out that
window and the fire escape.
Speaker 5: Perhaps lewis right, it's a Templar. Somebody's at the door, Louis.
I'll handle this if I need help, you'll need help.
We're in trouble. Good morning, miss Courtney.
Speaker 8: What are you doing?
Speaker 5: I'm in Diane, It's Courtney, my good friend. Louis, Oh
charmed you want? I should leave, mister Temple now, we'll
both be leaving in a minute, Louis. Just as soon
as we asked Miss Courtney some questions. She probably won't
answer my questions, like who killed Lefty Miller?
Speaker 8: I don't know. I thought it was suicide.
Speaker 5: Who's the fixer, Diane?
Speaker 8: I can't tell you why. I'm afraid, Saint, if you
believe me, if you'd help me, Why.
Speaker 5: Are you working on Phil Miller to throw a ball game?
Speaker 8: Why I can't tell you that.
Speaker 3: Frightened.
Speaker 5: I don't care how frightened you are. Man's been killed.
Why I can't? I'm afraid, lady's afraid. Come on, Louis,
let's go back to the ballpark and see if we
can throw a few curves. Mister Bush, as manager of
the Blues tax, you must have known Lefty Miller fairly well,
not well.
Speaker 15: No, I manage the team, but you don't manage an
old pro like Lefty. You just tell him what time
the game is and he does the red. Yes, from
what I saw of him, No, he was a good guy.
I'm sorry I was still taking it. That's hard to
tell about kids.
Speaker 5: He didn't.
Speaker 15: Lefty weren't close. Maybe you knew that, Yes, knew that,
but it's hard to tell just how he was taking it.
And I says, turned the pitch, and I told him,
of course i'd start somebody else, but no, he's going
to pitch tonight. Insisted on it, said he had it,
so you'll pitch.
Speaker 5: You think he should. He's the best we.
Speaker 15: Got, and I might get a phone call tomorrow telling
me he's sold to the major leagues. Anytime he wants
to pitch.
Speaker 5: You'll pitch, mister Bush. Have you heard any rumors about
a fix on your ball? Lin or, mister Templar. There's
always rumors around any kind of sport. I've never been
in a phony ball game, and as far as I know,
I've never seen one, so I don't listen to rumor. Thanks,
mister Bush, and good luck tonight to you and Phil
both well to Eno, mister Templar. I want to go
see a bookmaker, Louis Samus Spender.
Speaker 4: You know, I'm sure I know they're just Booky and
Tom place down on State Street, only a block or
two down the street.
Speaker 5: That's something good in Hollywood. Pot, No, Louise, you want
something good. Thanks, but no, this is different. I did
a favorite for Sam once he might be able to
return it. Sham Rey tins anything? What money?
Speaker 3: One time? I had a three horse polly going against him.
Speaker 5: Hoist to come in? The sight is leading into the stoy.
Isn't this the play?
Speaker 13: Oh?
Speaker 5: Yeah, you're sure? Wait for me here, Lloyd won't be long, sure,
mister Temple, Hello, Samn house.
Speaker 16: Business, Simon Temple, are glad to see you.
Speaker 5: What can I do for your information? Which you're going?
No further than Simon Temple. We in business to say,
do you handle any baseball money? To him?
Speaker 3: Nah?
Speaker 16: In the East's big business. It's all bet on the
major leagues out peanuts.
Speaker 5: Have you handled or heard of any bets lately on
the Blue Socks or against him? Against him?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 5: On yesterday? Funny thing too. Get to tell me about it?
Speaker 16: And sure a big creep comes in with two hundred
dollars to bet against the Socks in the game tonight
and don't like the smell of it.
Speaker 5: Nah, I tell him. Nah.
Speaker 16: Then the creep tells me what's wrong with me is
that I had any emotionally insecured childhood? Honest to go on?
Then he does a funny thing. He give me an
extra two hundred pay you up if you win the bet.
Imagine that, And if the Socks win, I get to
keep the home four hundred.
Speaker 5: The guy's nuts. I can't lose. The best he can
do is break even. Where's the payoff? Sam? If the
Socks lose.
Speaker 7: In room eight and eight the region tonight after the game,
do you get it?
Speaker 8: Sing?
Speaker 5: I'm beginning to bestor Miller was right. Dirty money has
a smell to it, and I'm beginning to smell it.
Thanks Sam, anytime sink, see you soon, maybe tonight tonight.
I hope so sink nothing personal, Sam, but I hope not.
Speaker 3: What is it.
Speaker 5: Good evening, Diane?
Speaker 11: Well, it's all friend, Jack, Harry, Franky?
Speaker 5: What is this room?
Speaker 8: Mister Templer? You're a home away from home.
Speaker 5: Let me throw the bum out, Frankie, your aggressions is.
Speaker 10: Showing anything in particular you wanted say? Frankie and I
are busy, see that busy packing?
Speaker 5: Too busy to go to the ball game tonight? Did
you know beforehand how it would come out? Let me
trot a bum out.
Speaker 10: I hate schizophrenics, but he looks like such an interesting one. Frankie,
and he's handsome too.
Speaker 5: Right, Dane, you're not as frightened as you wear. Well,
it's all right. I won't tell the boy.
Speaker 11: Jack, you better get out of here. It ain't healthy.
What's your trouble. You got a compulsion or something.
Speaker 5: No, it's just that when I start out on something,
I like to be in on the payoff, and tonight's
the payoff. The game should be over by now, and
the people will be arriving. I'll be the host of
our little party. You'll be hosts for a party of
one in a wood box. Jack, Diane shle liked you,
Dian it's a kid.
Speaker 7: Don't let him in.
Speaker 8: Frankie, come in, Phil, Hello.
Speaker 5: Sweetie, Hello Diane. Frankie. Yeah, Hellom, it's Templar. I love him.
Speaker 8: Ball game over, honey, Yeah, it's over. How you feel dirty?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 10: I don't feel bad about it, sweety. In a week
or two, you'll forget all about it.
Speaker 5: Sit down, Phil, I've taken over the party. Let's all
find out what games we've been playing. Diana, I'm getting
an awful frustration listening to him. Let him talk, Thank you, Phil, Yes,
mister Templar, What line did Diane? Use to get you
to throw the game tonight. The fixer had something on her.
She was afraid of him. Something would happened to her
if you didn't do as he wanted. And it doesn't matter,
you know the real reasons. Go on tell him Jack,
I will, Frankie. It was a trap for you, Phil.
This outfit is big and smart. They're willing to make
an investment and wait a while to cash in. It's
too tough to get next to a major league player.
You'll be up there this year or next, and when
you get there, you'll do what the fixer tells you,
because there's a club over your head. Yeah, yeah, a
certain payoff. You took in a hotel room at the
region for throwing a game with a Blue Sox. You
understand that. I understand your father found out about it.
He had the room right over this one nine o eight,
and he listened on the I escape. He was seen
from in here and he was killed. Then they took
him back up the fire escape to his room and
rigged the suicide, but they forgot to wash all the
blood off the iron outside this window.
Speaker 11: You're gonna listen to him, kid, He's an erotic, aane
aren't you gonna say something.
Speaker 8: I didn't have anything to do with it, honey. It
was the fixer who did it.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I believed in the fixer too at first, Diane,
until I came to your room the first time down
the bar. You said you didn't know me up here.
You told Frankie I was the saint. He made other
lips tonight. So I know who the fixer is.
Speaker 3: Who is he?
Speaker 5: You mean? Who is she? Fixer is a very beautiful woman, Diane.
The fixer is you? What is this a filibuster? A son?
Speaker 8: Let's assume you're right, mister Templer. Where does it get you?
Where does a change thing?
Speaker 5: I'm turning you over to the police, and Frankie can
highly shoot both Phil and myself.
Speaker 10: You won't have to, as you. Yeah, you underestimate me, Saint.
We should have had more time alone together. Phil will
do whatever I tell him in spite of what's happened,
won't you, sweetie?
Speaker 5: Will? Diane?
Speaker 8: I made sure of Phil, Saint. I made sure of
him first.
Speaker 10: You'll crawl on his hands and knees if I tell
him to, because if he doesn't, I might stop being
nice to him, and he couldn't.
Speaker 5: Stand that you should have thought of that, Saint.
Speaker 10: He got a metal block or something finished with mister Temple. Frank,
we've got to finish packing this gun.
Speaker 5: Says, Get over to the windows, Saint.
Speaker 11: This time there won't be no blood and the fire
escape just a lot on the sidewalk.
Speaker 5: Pretty messy that way, Frankie, your subconscious will hate you.
I won't look down. Oh you're going over to the window.
Speaker 11: Quiet, filter it out and stand back, kid, I ain't
playing with the stinging.
Speaker 7: Give me that.
Speaker 5: Thank you. I'll bring your wrist you think my joannalist
would say. And this makes this even look so? How
how bad? Is it? Not bad? My arm but not
my pitching on? Good? Why Diane stand still? Better? Go
for the police, Phil, Can you make it? Yeah? I
can make it? And Phil thanks? But she did make
up for the game. We'll figure out that later. About Dad, Saint,
he did all he could to protect you, Phil. Yeah,
he did like me then more than anything else. He
told me you better leave. I want you out of here.
Before that book he shows up to pay off mister Templar,
He won't be showing up.
Speaker 11: I didn't lose the game tonight, tell me more, Phil,
I pitched a three hit shut out.
Speaker 5: I figured it was the least I could do for Lefty.
The kid's gonna be all right, mister Temple, there will
be all right, definitely.
Speaker 3: You know I can't blame.
Speaker 5: Him for getting tangled up with that Diane.
Speaker 3: Now there is real age in the woodstump.
Speaker 5: She will be quite as attractive when she gets out Lowie.
Twenty years does something to a woman.
Speaker 4: Should have seen what had done to my wife if
she was no prize to begin with. What do you
think was wrong with Diane, mister Templan emotionally insecure.
Speaker 5: Childhood you've been talking to Frankie. I think Diane felt
an urge to corrupt Loie, to feel power, revenge, perhaps
for something hidden in her past. It might have been
her childhood, might have been society. So now society exacts
further told twenty years, I feel like a drink. Louis
Well till, mister Templar back to the Regent. I've got
a Scott's waiting for me at the bar.
Speaker 2: You have been listening to another transcribed adventure of the
Saint the robin Hood of modern crime, and all here
is our star bencent Price.
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Speaker 2: The night's script of The Saint was written by Dick Powell.
Our cast to Night included Gloria Blondelle, Jack Moyles, Halmarch
m Max, Bob Clark, and Marry Doctor. The music was
composed and conducted by Von Dexter. The Saint, based on
characters created by Leslie Charteris, is a James L. Safier
production and is directed by Helen n. Vincent Price is
soon to be seen co starring in RKO's production of
His Kind of Woman. All you Saint fans will be
glad to know that the Saint comic books are on
sale at all newsstands. You're announcer Val Brown, Three Times
Mean Good Times on NBC. There's Fine Entertainment on Theeter
Gild on the Air, returning Next Sunday on NBC. This weekend,
four hundred Americans have a holiday.
Speaker 5: Date with death. Stay off the list. Be careful.
Speaker 2: Next Sam Spade, then here Katherine Grayson on NBC.
Speaker 1: Welcome Back. I have to admit that I was a
little bit confused, as I tended to think of any
of the Saint's adventures taking place in New York and
certainly with Louis, based on his accent. However, the Brooklyn
Cabbet had kind of become a national institution, at least
over radio. I also struggled a bit with the idea
of the Saint being in a minor league city, but
then again, this was nineteen fifty, so everywhere west of
Saint Louis was a minor league city.
Speaker 5: I have to say that the.
Speaker 1: Character Lefty is kind of fascinating. He's a very flawed
man who owns his mistakes, of which there were many.
He's alienated from his son, a party responsible for an
acrimonious divorce, failed to prepare for his post baseball career,
failed to save any money, and didn't even really have
fun in the course of this very long and successful
major league career. He was and he's not even trying
to work his way into his son's good graces. He's
trying to just save him from ruining his life and
his career, and you can definitely appreciate why Simon is
sympathetic and even carries on this mission after Lefty was murdered.
I think that the plot by night In is clever.
It's nice break from the typical old time radio plot
of you know, we're gonna make a bunch of money
fixing the game or fight or whatever. It's playing a
long game and taking advantage of the loop her atmosphere
in the minor leagues who acquire long term stakes in
a future big leg star and the bet with the
bookie was an interesting puzzle. Do think that Diane was
probably overplaying her villains part right in front of Phil.
I mean, at some point Phil should have said, you know,
I am just I am standing right here at anyway, though,
a good episode. Now we turn to some listener comments
and feedback, and we start with this from Peter, who
writes in regarding the episode reflection on murder. I couldn't
help but notice the sound of instrumental music during some
of the dialogue for this episode. It almost sounded like
the episode was tape recorded over a previous recording of
an orchestra. Was this sort of thing common during the
old time radio era? Now, it was common during the
era during which old time radio was being circulated in
the early years. During those early years of old time
radio collecting, there was a lot of copying of episodes
onto tape and even reusing and re recording over old tapes,
and so you might end up with sound artifacts, and
those recordings, in some cases, with various episodes of various series,
might be the best that we have available. That's why
for a lot of old time radio collectors and researchers,
the aim of old time radio collecting and preservation isn't
just about finding new recordings, but it's also about finding
upgraded recordings, better copies. But alas in some cases they
are just not available. Then we have a comment from
Sasoff on reflection on murder. Okay, when I die, I'll
make sure to have eleven dollars and sixty three cents
in my pants pocket. I wish you well. I tell
you to tell me how that goes, but for obvious reasons,
you would not be able to. But I appreciate the comment. Anyway,
thanks so much, says all. Well, now it's time to
thank our Patreon supporter of the day. Thank you to Brian,
Patreon supporter since September twenty twenty two, currently supporting the
podcast at the rookie level of two dollars more per month. Again,
thank you so much for your support, and that will
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it from. We'll be back next Monday with another episode
of The Saint, but join us back here tomorrow for
the Big Story.
Speaker 5: Where over to missus Jone.
Speaker 17: I went over there once, the youngster Miami said it
only happened at night. And I've seen her walking out
in the white nightgown with the moon shining down hun
her walking around in the back of the house, outside
the ship just behind.
Speaker 13: The house, five times in a circle, walking around and
then just stockstill. And she wasn't talking to no god
in the sky. She was talking to the devil underfoot.
Speaker 3: Or what do you think she did?
Speaker 7: Missus Stones.
Speaker 17: I've known them both, miss Herkimer and her mother going
on to forty years. She killed her Mah.
Speaker 8: That's what she done, killed her mother.
Speaker 17: As God is my witness.
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