# The Saint: The Baseball Murder (EP5026)

An episode of [The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/335549005), 27 Jul 2026, 37 min.

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Today's Mystery: Simon Templar investigates rumors that a minor league baseball team is about to throw an important game. His inquiry leads him to a beautiful woman, a dangerous fixer, and a young pitching phenom whose promising career may be destroyed before he ever reaches the major leagues. Original Radio Broadcast: September 17, 1950 Originating from Hollywood Starring Vincent Price as Simon Templar, The Saint Also featuring Gloria Blondell, Jack Moyles, Hal March, Ed Max, Bob Clark, and Larry Dobkin Based on characters created by Leslie Charteris Written by Dick Powell Music composed and conducted by Van Dexter, Directed by Helen Mack Produced by James L. Saphier Support the podcast monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Patreon Supporter of the Day: Jay, Patreon supporter since April 2024 Support the podcast on a one-time basis at support.greatdetectives.net Mail donation to:Adam GrahamPO Box 15913 Boise, ID 83715 Take our listener survey at survey.greatdetectives.net Give us a call: 208-991-4783 Follow us on Instagram at instagram.com/greatdetectives Follow us on Twitter/X at twitter.com/greatdetectives Join us again next time for another adventure with The Saint.

## Transcript

[0:28] Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.
[0:35] Speaker 1: This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're
[0:38] Speaker 1: going to bring you this week's episode of The Saint.
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[1:11] Speaker 1: September third, nineteen fifty, here's the episode Baseball.
[1:16] Speaker 2: Murder The Adventures of the Saint starring Vincent Price. The Saint,
[1:51] Speaker 2: based on characters created by Leslie Charteris and known to
[1:55] Speaker 2: villions from books, magazines, and motion pictures The Robinhood of
[1:59] Speaker 2: Modern Crime, now comes transcribed to radio. Starring Hollywood's brilliant
[2:04] Speaker 2: and talented actor, Vincent Price. Says, the Saint.
[2:13] Speaker 3: Gone to the ball game. I'm mister templar. It's a
[2:15] Speaker 3: great day for it. Didn't know you was fund the
[2:17] Speaker 3: baseball you found.
[2:18] Speaker 4: The baseball, mister templated Lewis, I should have gone in
[2:21] Speaker 4: for baseball instead of becoming a cab jockey. Grown men
[2:24] Speaker 4: getting paid thousands of dollars for tossing a little ball
[2:27] Speaker 4: around two hours a day.
[2:28] Speaker 5: Can you beat it? Can you? Mister Templar, I'm asking you.
[2:31] Speaker 3: Can you beat it?
[2:32] Speaker 5: Louis? I based for you can't beat it? Now?
[2:34] Speaker 4: I'd like to live in the tal where I got
[2:35] Speaker 4: major league ball. The Bruce Socks here is all right,
[2:38] Speaker 4: but it's minor league. Do you think we'll ever get
[2:40] Speaker 4: a big league ball in this town, mister Templar, I
[2:43] Speaker 4: see you think we'll ever get big league ball?
[2:45] Speaker 3: Mister Template.
[2:47] Speaker 5: You can't quiet today, mister Temple. My silence, friend, Louis
[2:50] Speaker 5: is purely comparative.
[2:52] Speaker 4: Oh well, since you're not feeling what, it's good you're
[2:55] Speaker 4: taking the afternoon of been reading about that father and
[2:58] Speaker 4: some of the Bruce Socks left in PHILM.
[3:00] Speaker 5: Miller there are other interesting suppose to be the first
[3:02] Speaker 5: time in baseball father and son have played on the
[3:05] Speaker 5: same team.
[3:05] Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, the old man just down from the majors
[3:08] Speaker 4: and the kid on his way up, all lefty was
[3:11] Speaker 4: great to his day though, and the kid will be
[3:13] Speaker 4: great too.
[3:13] Speaker 5: They both playing today the way neither one.
[3:16] Speaker 4: Bill ain't do the fish till tomorrow, and the old
[3:18] Speaker 4: man's got a game.
[3:18] Speaker 3: Leg won't even be a uniform.
[3:20] Speaker 4: That's what goes first in baseball. Miss the Temple of
[3:23] Speaker 4: the legs and my line of work. I know, I know,
[3:27] Speaker 4: mister Temple.
[3:28] Speaker 3: You knows something funny. This rumors out about the Blue Socks.
[3:30] Speaker 5: What kind of room he is doing?
[3:32] Speaker 4: The rumors say the Socks are gonna do business lose
[3:35] Speaker 4: a ball game that maybe they should win.
[3:37] Speaker 5: Nine tense Lewis, baseball is honest. You know that.
[3:39] Speaker 3: Maybe it's so, but it's still gotta be played by humans.
[3:42] Speaker 5: You'd better step on it, my cinecal friend, we're.
[3:44] Speaker 4: Late, sure, mister Templar. Most likely nothing to the rumors anyway.
[3:49] Speaker 4: You know how it is driving a cab, you pick
[3:51] Speaker 4: up all sorts of things. Me, you don't do no
[3:54] Speaker 4: good to pick nothing up. I'm married.
[3:56] Speaker 3: Hey, yeah, ahead, you head that, mister Templar. I said me,
[4:00] Speaker 3: it don't do no good to pick nothing up.
[4:03] Speaker 5: I heard, Louis, I heard pretty funny. Huh, Louis, take
[4:07] Speaker 5: me out to the ballgame here, and you're right.
[4:27] Speaker 6: The Hello, Lefty, thanks for coming, Saint, Sit down, sit up, dang,
[4:31] Speaker 6: I hope I'm not late.
[4:32] Speaker 7: No, the game won't start for another ten minutes.
[4:34] Speaker 5: How how's the leg, Lefty?
[4:36] Speaker 7: That's improving, Saint?
[4:37] Speaker 5: I was crime. It stays about the same, always with it.
[4:40] Speaker 7: Yeah, that it is that it is.
[4:42] Speaker 5: Blue Stock's going to win today.
[4:43] Speaker 6: You know something, Saint, I don't much care. Oh, don't
[4:46] Speaker 6: get me wrong. When I'm in there myself, I played
[4:49] Speaker 6: a win, so that's the only way I know. And
[4:51] Speaker 6: after the majors, you don't get very excited over the
[4:53] Speaker 6: blue socks.
[4:54] Speaker 5: I guess not now.
[4:55] Speaker 7: I'm just playing out the string. What comes after that?
[4:57] Speaker 5: I don't know.
[4:58] Speaker 6: I manage this job, no chance. I was too busy
[5:01] Speaker 6: spending my money. Well, the smart boys were learning the
[5:04] Speaker 6: inside of the game. But I had fun. I guess,
[5:07] Speaker 6: did you, Nah, Saint, There's only one thing in baseball
[5:12] Speaker 6: I care about. There's only one thing in the world
[5:14] Speaker 6: I care about. He's sitting across the field and the
[5:16] Speaker 6: dugout wearing number thirty three. My son, Mmm, I hear
[5:20] Speaker 6: Phil is a great picture, Lefty. Hey, he's good. He'll
[5:22] Speaker 6: be great he's going up next year. Maybe this heah,
[5:27] Speaker 6: I can look at him through the binoculars. M.
[5:30] Speaker 5: Yeah, he looks like you, lefty.
[5:33] Speaker 6: You really think so, Saint. I'm worried sick about him.
[5:38] Speaker 6: That's why I asked you. I know, that's why I'm here.
[5:40] Speaker 6: What are you worried about it? And I think they're
[5:42] Speaker 6: after him, Saint. The crowd with the dirty money's after him.
[5:46] Speaker 6: I never handle any dirty money, but I've been around
[5:48] Speaker 6: it and I can smell it.
[5:50] Speaker 5: I can smell it. Now, what does Phil say? Do
[5:51] Speaker 5: you talk to him?
[5:53] Speaker 7: I can't talk to him.
[5:55] Speaker 6: Maybe you've read in the papers about our wonderful father
[5:57] Speaker 6: and son relationship.
[5:58] Speaker 5: Uh, the kid hates me? How come left?
[6:02] Speaker 6: And he was brought up by his mother and he
[6:04] Speaker 6: was brought up to hate me. I got out a
[6:06] Speaker 6: horse from her when the kid was two years old.
[6:09] Speaker 7: I gave her a raw deal.
[6:11] Speaker 5: He should hate me. You say you smell dirty money?
[6:14] Speaker 5: Do you have anything else to go on?
[6:16] Speaker 6: Left ing rumors and a girl? No, I take that back,
[6:19] Speaker 6: a woman. Take another look through the glasses, Saint. She's
[6:23] Speaker 6: sitting in the box behind Phil, bending over to talk
[6:25] Speaker 6: to him. She's there every day.
[6:27] Speaker 5: Yeah, yes, indeed, perhaps I should have taken that baseball.
[6:31] Speaker 5: That's just it.
[6:33] Speaker 6: There's a woman who's got what she has go for
[6:34] Speaker 6: a twenty one year old kid just because he plays
[6:36] Speaker 6: baseball good ordinarily now, but she's got Phil hooked so
[6:40] Speaker 6: hard and so deep.
[6:41] Speaker 7: I heard all over for her. He thinks it's romance.
[6:43] Speaker 5: What do you think it is?
[6:45] Speaker 7: I don't know, not exactly, Saint. Could you could you
[6:49] Speaker 7: see if you could find out?
[6:50] Speaker 5: I can try what's her name lefting.
[6:52] Speaker 6: Diane Courtney. She's staying at the Regent, same hotel the
[6:55] Speaker 6: ball club puts up at. I happen to hear the
[6:58] Speaker 6: kid making a cocktail date with her there for six
[7:00] Speaker 6: this evening.
[7:01] Speaker 5: Good you see, if you can get him delayed a
[7:03] Speaker 5: few minutes.
[7:04] Speaker 6: I will find out what she's trying to do. SAT,
[7:07] Speaker 6: find out who's in back of her. If they spoil
[7:10] Speaker 6: that kid, they won't, they won't let thanks Sat. And
[7:14] Speaker 6: there's anything I can never do.
[7:15] Speaker 5: No worry about it. In fact, I'm looking forward to
[7:17] Speaker 5: meeting Mss Courtney. I'm sure we'll have a lot in
[7:20] Speaker 5: common baseball and well we'll find something. Do you mind
[7:39] Speaker 5: if I sit down here? The bar seems to be
[7:42] Speaker 5: rather crowded is crowded. As matter of fact, he was
[7:45] Speaker 5: crowded the minute you walked in.
[7:48] Speaker 8: But I am waiting for someone.
[7:50] Speaker 5: He might be late.
[7:51] Speaker 8: That's very true.
[7:53] Speaker 5: He won't be. What are we drinking? Martini?
[7:55] Speaker 8: You say?
[7:55] Speaker 5: So? Wait there too, martinis extra dry. I see that
[8:00] Speaker 5: you're a devitee of the national past time.
[8:02] Speaker 8: That could very well be which national pastime?
[8:07] Speaker 9: I saw you at the ball game today, Yes, I
[8:09] Speaker 9: go every day. Business is pleasure's that's supposed to me.
[8:12] Speaker 9: Baseball is a business for some Oh, thank you, wad.
[8:18] Speaker 9: Let's drink to pleasure.
[8:20] Speaker 8: Let's just drink. I found that you run out of
[8:22] Speaker 8: tels long before you run out of drink.
[8:25] Speaker 5: Comment on human frail thing, Well, what is.
[8:29] Speaker 8: It you want? Friends?
[8:31] Speaker 5: I appreciate your frankness. It's one of your concealed assets.
[8:35] Speaker 5: I'd like some answers about Phil Miller?
[8:37] Speaker 8: Who are you?
[8:38] Speaker 5: Don't you know? No, I'm the man who wants the
[8:40] Speaker 5: answers about Phil Miller? Should I start asking questions? Bill?
[8:44] Speaker 10: Just Kim and we can't talk now, come up to
[8:46] Speaker 10: my room in fifteen minutes. Dat A wait, Well I
[8:49] Speaker 10: need help, believe me, I need.
[8:50] Speaker 5: Help, say I thought we had a date, Diana. Was
[8:52] Speaker 5: I wrong?
[8:53] Speaker 8: My friend's just leaving phil and I don't care for
[8:56] Speaker 8: your tongue.
[8:57] Speaker 5: Oh, I'm sorry, Diana, I just thought that.
[8:59] Speaker 6: Well.
[9:00] Speaker 8: Remember I don't care for the jealousy routine. You're too
[9:03] Speaker 8: young for it.
[9:04] Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, well it's been charming. But I have a
[9:07] Speaker 5: cab waiting start. I'll see you again, definitely, yes, definitely
[9:11] Speaker 5: die Are you a capture? Oh, thank you, I have
[9:28] Speaker 5: one waiting here. He is, Wait till mister, no way, Louis,
[9:34] Speaker 5: I have a date in the hotel here in fifteen minutes.
[9:37] Speaker 5: You got a friend. I'm afraid now I'm just dreaming, Louis.
[9:41] Speaker 5: I'm not absolutely convinced about the purity of the lady's intentions.
[9:45] Speaker 5: This is a cause for complaint, you misinterpret Come up
[9:48] Speaker 5: the room eight oh w eight ten minutes or so
[9:50] Speaker 5: after I go up and knock on the door. I
[9:53] Speaker 5: get you. But if I shouldn't happen to meet a
[9:55] Speaker 5: cab at that particular time, come ahead of you.
[9:57] Speaker 3: There's times in everybody's life when the least things he
[10:00] Speaker 3: means a tax like.
[10:18] Speaker 5: You know, seeks sweet.
[10:25] Speaker 8: Oh, come in, come in quickly. Someone makes you.
[10:28] Speaker 11: Has already seen him. Frank, go ahead, and Jack and
[10:31] Speaker 11: I'm right behind you with something that resents any quick moves.
[10:34] Speaker 12: Sneak up behind people pretty quietly. Frank used to be
[10:37] Speaker 12: in a girl guide. Shut the door down, Shut it. Oh,
[10:44] Speaker 12: my nosey friend here and me has business.
[10:47] Speaker 8: I didn't tell the saint anything, Frank.
[10:48] Speaker 5: I just boss.
[10:49] Speaker 11: Don't like nosy guys like the Saint. I don't like
[10:52] Speaker 11: nosy guys like the Saint.
[10:54] Speaker 8: Let him alone, Frank, You what good beating him up to.
[10:56] Speaker 11: The bosses orders? Besides, my analyst tells me beat enough
[11:00] Speaker 11: nosy guys.
[11:01] Speaker 5: I don't like.
[11:01] Speaker 11: It's a good way of working up my aggressions.
[11:04] Speaker 5: You're analyst. What's the matter? I can't get analyzed? What
[11:07] Speaker 5: does your analyst say about your carrying a gun? Didn't
[11:10] Speaker 5: he point out this is an artificial property or otherwise
[11:12] Speaker 5: charming personality?
[11:16] Speaker 11: My analyst says, I shouldn't get insulted. It remarks by neurotics.
[11:19] Speaker 11: You think I'm a neurotic. If you ain't, no, Jackie
[11:22] Speaker 11: will be when I finished. Don't fall down yet, I
[11:26] Speaker 11: got four for.
[11:30] Speaker 5: How do you want? Okay? Don it?
[11:40] Speaker 11: I shouldn't have gotten mad, my analyst says, I shouldn't
[11:44] Speaker 11: let my emotions color my business life, mister.
[12:00] Speaker 5: Temple, mister Templar, Oh, oh, Louis, mister Temple, you all right?
[12:06] Speaker 5: Should I call a doctor? I'm all right? I guess
[12:12] Speaker 5: what happened, mister Templar. I knocked on the door, just
[12:15] Speaker 5: like you said. When nobody answered, I come in. You
[12:17] Speaker 5: was on the floor. You're still on the floor, and
[12:19] Speaker 5: I think i'll stay here. Oh, got myself worked over,
[12:23] Speaker 5: Louis by psychoanalytical muscle boy. Oh, I should give you
[12:27] Speaker 5: some beautiful lumps. Yeah, real neat, professional job. Mhm. What's
[12:34] Speaker 5: this business caught in your chest? George? No, let's see. Huh,
[12:39] Speaker 5: thank you, mister put it there. This is part of
[12:41] Speaker 5: the warning. I guess what's you say? It says the fixer,
[12:46] Speaker 5: I fix anything. Hmm. What you'd call modest is he?
[12:50] Speaker 5: But fixes rarely are. I think we better have a
[12:53] Speaker 5: doctor spray you with some of cure crome. No, Louis,
[12:56] Speaker 5: I'm going to be too busy doing what sleeping? Hello shaint,
[13:18] Speaker 5: This is Lefty Miller. Oh, hello, Lefty, what time is it?
[13:21] Speaker 5: At midnight? He was sleep I went to bed early night,
[13:24] Speaker 5: had a rather trying evening.
[13:26] Speaker 6: Look I've been finding out things, things about the crowd
[13:29] Speaker 6: with the dirty money, and who the head of it is.
[13:31] Speaker 5: You mean, who the fixer is?
[13:32] Speaker 6: Yeah, I found out what they're.
[13:33] Speaker 7: Trying to get from the kid from Phil. Can you
[13:36] Speaker 7: meet me here at the hotel?
[13:37] Speaker 5: Half an hour? Good?
[13:38] Speaker 13: In the bar.
[13:39] Speaker 7: I'm going after some more dope.
[13:40] Speaker 5: Now you better wait until I get there. Lefty, their
[13:42] Speaker 5: rough boys, I.
[13:43] Speaker 7: Know, but don't worry about me. See you in half
[13:46] Speaker 7: an hour.
[13:56] Speaker 5: A waiter another Johnny Walker over eyes? Please?
[13:59] Speaker 14: Yes, Look you're Simon Temple, aren't you? When they call
[14:02] Speaker 14: a saint? Sit down, Phil, I'm not sitting down. Got
[14:04] Speaker 14: some things to tell you. I've heard that you've been
[14:07] Speaker 14: asking questions about me, and I can guess who sent you.
[14:10] Speaker 5: It was my father. Look, isn't it kind of late
[14:12] Speaker 5: for you? Phil? You're supposed to pitch Tom. I don't
[14:14] Speaker 5: need anybody to run my life for me, You or
[14:16] Speaker 5: my father either.
[14:18] Speaker 14: Where is he when I was to meet him here?
[14:19] Speaker 14: But he hasn't shown up yet? Most likely up in
[14:21] Speaker 14: his room. All right, come on, let's go up and
[14:23] Speaker 14: see him. I want to straighten you both out together.
[14:25] Speaker 5: You know what Roomy's in? Sure? Nine o' eight right.
[14:28] Speaker 5: How do you still a waiter? Yes, hold that drink
[14:32] Speaker 5: for me. I'll be back for it sooner or later. Hey, Dad,
[14:47] Speaker 5: open up, I want to talk to you. It doesn't
[14:49] Speaker 5: look like your father is in track the door? What's open?
[14:55] Speaker 5: What's but there's this dad? Look? I told you not
[15:03] Speaker 5: to look. He shot himself? Why why he did? Feeling
[15:06] Speaker 5: with a gun in his hand, but he didn't pull
[15:08] Speaker 5: the trigger. What are you trying to prove? Who did?
[15:25] Speaker 5: What's oil? Mister Temple? A Region Hotel, Louis in Good morning?
[15:28] Speaker 5: Good morning? Say I read in the papers this morning
[15:31] Speaker 5: about Lefty Miller.
[15:32] Speaker 3: Oh Tom, why do you think he did it?
[15:34] Speaker 5: Mister Temple? He didn't. The police can buy the suicide
[15:37] Speaker 5: theory for the time being. But it was murdered, Louis.
[15:40] Speaker 5: A friend of mine was murdered last night, and today
[15:43] Speaker 5: things are going to be done about it. What are
[15:45] Speaker 5: you going to do with the region? I'm going back
[15:47] Speaker 5: to the Young Ladies room where I had such an
[15:49] Speaker 5: interesting time last evening. This time I better go with you.
[15:53] Speaker 5: Perhaps you'd better, Louis, and I'm hiring you for the
[15:55] Speaker 5: whole afternoon. We've got a lot of ground to cover.
[16:00] Speaker 4: It was a great ball player, mister Templar, seen him
[16:03] Speaker 4: in the world, serious one said, Yankee Stadium.
[16:05] Speaker 5: Hard to believe he's dead. A man can be killed
[16:08] Speaker 5: in a lot of ways, Louis. He can be killed faster,
[16:10] Speaker 5: or he can be killed through what happens to his son.
[16:14] Speaker 5: I'm glad at least that didn't happen to the lefty.
[16:31] Speaker 5: You sure nobody isn't he called on the house phone
[16:34] Speaker 5: before we came up. I think this key will fit.
[16:38] Speaker 5: How did you get a key? I remember to make
[16:40] Speaker 5: an impression of the lock after that beating last evening.
[16:43] Speaker 5: There we're in nobody here, all right? Shut the door, Louis,
[16:50] Speaker 5: and lock it. Okay, what are you looking for, mister Templar?
[16:57] Speaker 5: The truth, Louis is my friend Philip Marlo would say
[17:00] Speaker 5: crime detection is an adventure in search of the hidden truth.
[17:04] Speaker 3: I'm going to find the hidden truth looking out that
[17:06] Speaker 3: window and the fire escape.
[17:07] Speaker 5: Perhaps lewis right, it's a Templar. Somebody's at the door, Louis.
[17:12] Speaker 5: I'll handle this if I need help, you'll need help.
[17:14] Speaker 5: We're in trouble. Good morning, miss Courtney.
[17:19] Speaker 8: What are you doing?
[17:20] Speaker 5: I'm in Diane, It's Courtney, my good friend. Louis, Oh
[17:23] Speaker 5: charmed you want? I should leave, mister Temple now, we'll
[17:27] Speaker 5: both be leaving in a minute, Louis. Just as soon
[17:29] Speaker 5: as we asked Miss Courtney some questions. She probably won't
[17:32] Speaker 5: answer my questions, like who killed Lefty Miller?
[17:35] Speaker 8: I don't know. I thought it was suicide.
[17:39] Speaker 5: Who's the fixer, Diane?
[17:40] Speaker 8: I can't tell you why. I'm afraid, Saint, if you
[17:45] Speaker 8: believe me, if you'd help me, Why.
[17:46] Speaker 5: Are you working on Phil Miller to throw a ball game?
[17:48] Speaker 8: Why I can't tell you that.
[17:52] Speaker 3: Frightened.
[17:52] Speaker 5: I don't care how frightened you are. Man's been killed.
[17:54] Speaker 5: Why I can't? I'm afraid, lady's afraid. Come on, Louis,
[17:58] Speaker 5: let's go back to the ballpark and see if we
[18:00] Speaker 5: can throw a few curves. Mister Bush, as manager of
[18:15] Speaker 5: the Blues tax, you must have known Lefty Miller fairly well,
[18:20] Speaker 5: not well.
[18:21] Speaker 15: No, I manage the team, but you don't manage an
[18:24] Speaker 15: old pro like Lefty. You just tell him what time
[18:26] Speaker 15: the game is and he does the red. Yes, from
[18:30] Speaker 15: what I saw of him, No, he was a good guy.
[18:35] Speaker 15: I'm sorry I was still taking it. That's hard to
[18:37] Speaker 15: tell about kids.
[18:39] Speaker 5: He didn't.
[18:39] Speaker 15: Lefty weren't close. Maybe you knew that, Yes, knew that,
[18:43] Speaker 15: but it's hard to tell just how he was taking it.
[18:46] Speaker 15: And I says, turned the pitch, and I told him,
[18:48] Speaker 15: of course i'd start somebody else, but no, he's going
[18:50] Speaker 15: to pitch tonight. Insisted on it, said he had it,
[18:54] Speaker 15: so you'll pitch.
[18:55] Speaker 5: You think he should. He's the best we.
[18:58] Speaker 15: Got, and I might get a phone call tomorrow telling
[19:01] Speaker 15: me he's sold to the major leagues. Anytime he wants
[19:04] Speaker 15: to pitch.
[19:04] Speaker 5: You'll pitch, mister Bush. Have you heard any rumors about
[19:09] Speaker 5: a fix on your ball? Lin or, mister Templar. There's
[19:11] Speaker 5: always rumors around any kind of sport. I've never been
[19:15] Speaker 5: in a phony ball game, and as far as I know,
[19:17] Speaker 5: I've never seen one, so I don't listen to rumor. Thanks,
[19:21] Speaker 5: mister Bush, and good luck tonight to you and Phil
[19:25] Speaker 5: both well to Eno, mister Templar. I want to go
[19:40] Speaker 5: see a bookmaker, Louis Samus Spender.
[19:43] Speaker 4: You know, I'm sure I know they're just Booky and
[19:45] Speaker 4: Tom place down on State Street, only a block or
[19:47] Speaker 4: two down the street.
[19:49] Speaker 5: That's something good in Hollywood. Pot, No, Louise, you want
[19:53] Speaker 5: something good. Thanks, but no, this is different. I did
[19:56] Speaker 5: a favorite for Sam once he might be able to
[19:57] Speaker 5: return it. Sham Rey tins anything? What money?
[20:01] Speaker 3: One time? I had a three horse polly going against him.
[20:04] Speaker 5: Hoist to come in? The sight is leading into the stoy.
[20:06] Speaker 5: Isn't this the play?
[20:08] Speaker 13: Oh?
[20:08] Speaker 5: Yeah, you're sure? Wait for me here, Lloyd won't be long, sure,
[20:13] Speaker 5: mister Temple, Hello, Samn house.
[20:19] Speaker 16: Business, Simon Temple, are glad to see you.
[20:21] Speaker 5: What can I do for your information? Which you're going?
[20:24] Speaker 5: No further than Simon Temple. We in business to say,
[20:26] Speaker 5: do you handle any baseball money? To him?
[20:28] Speaker 3: Nah?
[20:29] Speaker 16: In the East's big business. It's all bet on the
[20:31] Speaker 16: major leagues out peanuts.
[20:33] Speaker 5: Have you handled or heard of any bets lately on
[20:35] Speaker 5: the Blue Socks or against him? Against him?
[20:37] Speaker 8: Yeah?
[20:38] Speaker 5: On yesterday? Funny thing too. Get to tell me about it?
[20:41] Speaker 16: And sure a big creep comes in with two hundred
[20:44] Speaker 16: dollars to bet against the Socks in the game tonight
[20:46] Speaker 16: and don't like the smell of it.
[20:47] Speaker 5: Nah, I tell him. Nah.
[20:49] Speaker 16: Then the creep tells me what's wrong with me is
[20:51] Speaker 16: that I had any emotionally insecured childhood? Honest to go on?
[20:56] Speaker 16: Then he does a funny thing. He give me an
[20:58] Speaker 16: extra two hundred pay you up if you win the bet.
[21:02] Speaker 16: Imagine that, And if the Socks win, I get to
[21:05] Speaker 16: keep the home four hundred.
[21:07] Speaker 5: The guy's nuts. I can't lose. The best he can
[21:10] Speaker 5: do is break even. Where's the payoff? Sam? If the
[21:12] Speaker 5: Socks lose.
[21:14] Speaker 7: In room eight and eight the region tonight after the game,
[21:17] Speaker 7: do you get it?
[21:18] Speaker 8: Sing?
[21:19] Speaker 5: I'm beginning to bestor Miller was right. Dirty money has
[21:22] Speaker 5: a smell to it, and I'm beginning to smell it.
[21:25] Speaker 5: Thanks Sam, anytime sink, see you soon, maybe tonight tonight.
[21:29] Speaker 5: I hope so sink nothing personal, Sam, but I hope not.
[21:46] Speaker 3: What is it.
[21:49] Speaker 5: Good evening, Diane?
[21:50] Speaker 11: Well, it's all friend, Jack, Harry, Franky?
[21:54] Speaker 5: What is this room?
[21:55] Speaker 8: Mister Templer? You're a home away from home.
[21:58] Speaker 5: Let me throw the bum out, Frankie, your aggressions is.
[22:01] Speaker 10: Showing anything in particular you wanted say? Frankie and I
[22:04] Speaker 10: are busy, see that busy packing?
[22:06] Speaker 5: Too busy to go to the ball game tonight? Did
[22:08] Speaker 5: you know beforehand how it would come out? Let me
[22:11] Speaker 5: trot a bum out.
[22:12] Speaker 10: I hate schizophrenics, but he looks like such an interesting one. Frankie,
[22:16] Speaker 10: and he's handsome too.
[22:17] Speaker 5: Right, Dane, you're not as frightened as you wear. Well,
[22:20] Speaker 5: it's all right. I won't tell the boy.
[22:22] Speaker 11: Jack, you better get out of here. It ain't healthy.
[22:25] Speaker 11: What's your trouble. You got a compulsion or something.
[22:28] Speaker 5: No, it's just that when I start out on something,
[22:30] Speaker 5: I like to be in on the payoff, and tonight's
[22:32] Speaker 5: the payoff. The game should be over by now, and
[22:34] Speaker 5: the people will be arriving. I'll be the host of
[22:37] Speaker 5: our little party. You'll be hosts for a party of
[22:40] Speaker 5: one in a wood box. Jack, Diane shle liked you,
[22:44] Speaker 5: Dian it's a kid.
[22:46] Speaker 7: Don't let him in.
[22:46] Speaker 8: Frankie, come in, Phil, Hello.
[22:49] Speaker 5: Sweetie, Hello Diane. Frankie. Yeah, Hellom, it's Templar. I love him.
[22:54] Speaker 8: Ball game over, honey, Yeah, it's over. How you feel dirty?
[22:59] Speaker 5: Oh?
[22:59] Speaker 10: I don't feel bad about it, sweety. In a week
[23:01] Speaker 10: or two, you'll forget all about it.
[23:02] Speaker 5: Sit down, Phil, I've taken over the party. Let's all
[23:05] Speaker 5: find out what games we've been playing. Diana, I'm getting
[23:08] Speaker 5: an awful frustration listening to him. Let him talk, Thank you, Phil, Yes,
[23:13] Speaker 5: mister Templar, What line did Diane? Use to get you
[23:15] Speaker 5: to throw the game tonight. The fixer had something on her.
[23:18] Speaker 5: She was afraid of him. Something would happened to her
[23:20] Speaker 5: if you didn't do as he wanted. And it doesn't matter,
[23:24] Speaker 5: you know the real reasons. Go on tell him Jack,
[23:27] Speaker 5: I will, Frankie. It was a trap for you, Phil.
[23:31] Speaker 5: This outfit is big and smart. They're willing to make
[23:34] Speaker 5: an investment and wait a while to cash in. It's
[23:37] Speaker 5: too tough to get next to a major league player.
[23:39] Speaker 5: You'll be up there this year or next, and when
[23:41] Speaker 5: you get there, you'll do what the fixer tells you,
[23:43] Speaker 5: because there's a club over your head. Yeah, yeah, a
[23:47] Speaker 5: certain payoff. You took in a hotel room at the
[23:49] Speaker 5: region for throwing a game with a Blue Sox. You
[23:52] Speaker 5: understand that. I understand your father found out about it.
[23:56] Speaker 5: He had the room right over this one nine o eight,
[23:59] Speaker 5: and he listened on the I escape. He was seen
[24:01] Speaker 5: from in here and he was killed. Then they took
[24:04] Speaker 5: him back up the fire escape to his room and
[24:06] Speaker 5: rigged the suicide, but they forgot to wash all the
[24:09] Speaker 5: blood off the iron outside this window.
[24:11] Speaker 11: You're gonna listen to him, kid, He's an erotic, aane
[24:14] Speaker 11: aren't you gonna say something.
[24:15] Speaker 8: I didn't have anything to do with it, honey. It
[24:18] Speaker 8: was the fixer who did it.
[24:19] Speaker 5: Yeah. I believed in the fixer too at first, Diane,
[24:22] Speaker 5: until I came to your room the first time down
[24:24] Speaker 5: the bar. You said you didn't know me up here.
[24:26] Speaker 5: You told Frankie I was the saint. He made other
[24:29] Speaker 5: lips tonight. So I know who the fixer is.
[24:31] Speaker 3: Who is he?
[24:32] Speaker 5: You mean? Who is she? Fixer is a very beautiful woman, Diane.
[24:36] Speaker 5: The fixer is you? What is this a filibuster? A son?
[24:40] Speaker 8: Let's assume you're right, mister Templer. Where does it get you?
[24:43] Speaker 8: Where does a change thing?
[24:44] Speaker 5: I'm turning you over to the police, and Frankie can
[24:47] Speaker 5: highly shoot both Phil and myself.
[24:48] Speaker 10: You won't have to, as you. Yeah, you underestimate me, Saint.
[24:52] Speaker 10: We should have had more time alone together. Phil will
[24:55] Speaker 10: do whatever I tell him in spite of what's happened,
[24:58] Speaker 10: won't you, sweetie?
[24:59] Speaker 5: Will? Diane?
[25:02] Speaker 8: I made sure of Phil, Saint. I made sure of
[25:04] Speaker 8: him first.
[25:06] Speaker 10: You'll crawl on his hands and knees if I tell
[25:08] Speaker 10: him to, because if he doesn't, I might stop being
[25:10] Speaker 10: nice to him, and he couldn't.
[25:12] Speaker 5: Stand that you should have thought of that, Saint.
[25:16] Speaker 10: He got a metal block or something finished with mister Temple. Frank,
[25:19] Speaker 10: we've got to finish packing this gun.
[25:21] Speaker 5: Says, Get over to the windows, Saint.
[25:24] Speaker 11: This time there won't be no blood and the fire
[25:26] Speaker 11: escape just a lot on the sidewalk.
[25:29] Speaker 5: Pretty messy that way, Frankie, your subconscious will hate you.
[25:32] Speaker 5: I won't look down. Oh you're going over to the window.
[25:37] Speaker 11: Quiet, filter it out and stand back, kid, I ain't
[25:39] Speaker 11: playing with the stinging.
[25:44] Speaker 7: Give me that.
[25:45] Speaker 5: Thank you. I'll bring your wrist you think my joannalist
[25:49] Speaker 5: would say. And this makes this even look so? How
[25:56] Speaker 5: how bad? Is it? Not bad? My arm but not
[26:01] Speaker 5: my pitching on? Good? Why Diane stand still? Better? Go
[26:07] Speaker 5: for the police, Phil, Can you make it? Yeah? I
[26:09] Speaker 5: can make it? And Phil thanks? But she did make
[26:13] Speaker 5: up for the game. We'll figure out that later. About Dad, Saint,
[26:17] Speaker 5: he did all he could to protect you, Phil. Yeah,
[26:19] Speaker 5: he did like me then more than anything else. He
[26:22] Speaker 5: told me you better leave. I want you out of here.
[26:26] Speaker 5: Before that book he shows up to pay off mister Templar,
[26:29] Speaker 5: He won't be showing up.
[26:31] Speaker 11: I didn't lose the game tonight, tell me more, Phil,
[26:34] Speaker 11: I pitched a three hit shut out.
[26:37] Speaker 5: I figured it was the least I could do for Lefty.
[26:52] Speaker 5: The kid's gonna be all right, mister Temple, there will
[26:55] Speaker 5: be all right, definitely.
[26:57] Speaker 3: You know I can't blame.
[26:58] Speaker 5: Him for getting tangled up with that Diane.
[27:00] Speaker 3: Now there is real age in the woodstump.
[27:02] Speaker 5: She will be quite as attractive when she gets out Lowie.
[27:05] Speaker 5: Twenty years does something to a woman.
[27:07] Speaker 4: Should have seen what had done to my wife if
[27:09] Speaker 4: she was no prize to begin with. What do you
[27:12] Speaker 4: think was wrong with Diane, mister Templan emotionally insecure.
[27:15] Speaker 5: Childhood you've been talking to Frankie. I think Diane felt
[27:19] Speaker 5: an urge to corrupt Loie, to feel power, revenge, perhaps
[27:24] Speaker 5: for something hidden in her past. It might have been
[27:26] Speaker 5: her childhood, might have been society. So now society exacts
[27:31] Speaker 5: further told twenty years, I feel like a drink. Louis
[27:37] Speaker 5: Well till, mister Templar back to the Regent. I've got
[27:39] Speaker 5: a Scott's waiting for me at the bar.
[27:54] Speaker 2: You have been listening to another transcribed adventure of the
[27:57] Speaker 2: Saint the robin Hood of modern crime, and all here
[28:00] Speaker 2: is our star bencent Price.
[28:02] Speaker 5: Ladies and gentlemen, the most priceless gift which a community
[28:05] Speaker 5: can give its children is a fine education. Here in America,
[28:10] Speaker 5: your parents have been able to take that education pretty well,
[28:13] Speaker 5: for granted, but that won't be true of the future
[28:16] Speaker 5: unless we plan now to cope with the educational problems
[28:19] Speaker 5: of the future. There are going to be lots of them.
[28:22] Speaker 5: We know that for sure. Because of the increased birth
[28:25] Speaker 5: rate during and since the war, an extra seven million
[28:29] Speaker 5: children are going to be enrolling in our public schools,
[28:32] Speaker 5: and the way things stand, our schools just aren't ready
[28:35] Speaker 5: to handle them. The problem varies from district to district,
[28:40] Speaker 5: but it's always a problem of shortages. In some localities
[28:43] Speaker 5: there aren't enough class rooms and in others not enough
[28:46] Speaker 5: books and equipment, and overall we're suffering from a shortage
[28:50] Speaker 5: of teachers. In order to meet the challenge and make
[28:53] Speaker 5: sure that our youngsters will get the education they deserve,
[28:57] Speaker 5: we'll have to lay down an educational blueprint for the
[28:59] Speaker 5: years ahead. Our local school boards are doing that right now,
[29:03] Speaker 5: but they can't do it alone. They need everyone's efforts
[29:07] Speaker 5: to build a stronger educational system. If you wish to help,
[29:11] Speaker 5: simply contact your local school board and for further an
[29:15] Speaker 5: information right to the National Citizens Commission for the Public Schools,
[29:19] Speaker 5: New York, New York. That's the National Citizens Commission for
[29:23] Speaker 5: the Public Schools, New York, New York. Good citizens everywhere
[29:28] Speaker 5: are helping, but they know that better schools make better communities.
[29:33] Speaker 5: Missus Vincent Price, inviting you to join us again next
[29:35] Speaker 5: week at this same time for another exciting adventure of
[29:38] Speaker 5: the Saint. Good Night.
[29:52] Speaker 2: The night's script of The Saint was written by Dick Powell.
[29:54] Speaker 2: Our cast to Night included Gloria Blondelle, Jack Moyles, Halmarch
[29:58] Speaker 2: m Max, Bob Clark, and Marry Doctor. The music was
[30:01] Speaker 2: composed and conducted by Von Dexter. The Saint, based on
[30:04] Speaker 2: characters created by Leslie Charteris, is a James L. Safier
[30:08] Speaker 2: production and is directed by Helen n. Vincent Price is
[30:11] Speaker 2: soon to be seen co starring in RKO's production of
[30:14] Speaker 2: His Kind of Woman. All you Saint fans will be
[30:16] Speaker 2: glad to know that the Saint comic books are on
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[30:33] Speaker 5: Date with death. Stay off the list. Be careful.
[30:36] Speaker 2: Next Sam Spade, then here Katherine Grayson on NBC.
[30:51] Speaker 1: Welcome Back. I have to admit that I was a
[30:55] Speaker 1: little bit confused, as I tended to think of any
[31:00] Speaker 1: of the Saint's adventures taking place in New York and
[31:03] Speaker 1: certainly with Louis, based on his accent. However, the Brooklyn
[31:09] Speaker 1: Cabbet had kind of become a national institution, at least
[31:13] Speaker 1: over radio. I also struggled a bit with the idea
[31:16] Speaker 1: of the Saint being in a minor league city, but
[31:19] Speaker 1: then again, this was nineteen fifty, so everywhere west of
[31:24] Speaker 1: Saint Louis was a minor league city.
[31:27] Speaker 5: I have to say that the.
[31:29] Speaker 1: Character Lefty is kind of fascinating. He's a very flawed
[31:35] Speaker 1: man who owns his mistakes, of which there were many.
[31:40] Speaker 1: He's alienated from his son, a party responsible for an
[31:45] Speaker 1: acrimonious divorce, failed to prepare for his post baseball career,
[31:50] Speaker 1: failed to save any money, and didn't even really have
[31:54] Speaker 1: fun in the course of this very long and successful
[31:58] Speaker 1: major league career. He was and he's not even trying
[32:02] Speaker 1: to work his way into his son's good graces. He's
[32:05] Speaker 1: trying to just save him from ruining his life and
[32:09] Speaker 1: his career, and you can definitely appreciate why Simon is
[32:13] Speaker 1: sympathetic and even carries on this mission after Lefty was murdered.
[32:20] Speaker 1: I think that the plot by night In is clever.
[32:25] Speaker 1: It's nice break from the typical old time radio plot
[32:30] Speaker 1: of you know, we're gonna make a bunch of money
[32:33] Speaker 1: fixing the game or fight or whatever. It's playing a
[32:37] Speaker 1: long game and taking advantage of the loop her atmosphere
[32:44] Speaker 1: in the minor leagues who acquire long term stakes in
[32:48] Speaker 1: a future big leg star and the bet with the
[32:52] Speaker 1: bookie was an interesting puzzle. Do think that Diane was
[32:57] Speaker 1: probably overplaying her villains part right in front of Phil.
[33:02] Speaker 1: I mean, at some point Phil should have said, you know,
[33:04] Speaker 1: I am just I am standing right here at anyway, though,
[33:08] Speaker 1: a good episode. Now we turn to some listener comments
[33:12] Speaker 1: and feedback, and we start with this from Peter, who
[33:18] Speaker 1: writes in regarding the episode reflection on murder. I couldn't
[33:23] Speaker 1: help but notice the sound of instrumental music during some
[33:26] Speaker 1: of the dialogue for this episode. It almost sounded like
[33:29] Speaker 1: the episode was tape recorded over a previous recording of
[33:32] Speaker 1: an orchestra. Was this sort of thing common during the
[33:36] Speaker 1: old time radio era? Now, it was common during the
[33:40] Speaker 1: era during which old time radio was being circulated in
[33:46] Speaker 1: the early years. During those early years of old time
[33:50] Speaker 1: radio collecting, there was a lot of copying of episodes
[33:58] Speaker 1: onto tape and even reusing and re recording over old tapes,
[34:04] Speaker 1: and so you might end up with sound artifacts, and
[34:08] Speaker 1: those recordings, in some cases, with various episodes of various series,
[34:15] Speaker 1: might be the best that we have available. That's why
[34:18] Speaker 1: for a lot of old time radio collectors and researchers,
[34:23] Speaker 1: the aim of old time radio collecting and preservation isn't
[34:28] Speaker 1: just about finding new recordings, but it's also about finding
[34:32] Speaker 1: upgraded recordings, better copies. But alas in some cases they
[34:37] Speaker 1: are just not available. Then we have a comment from
[34:41] Speaker 1: Sasoff on reflection on murder. Okay, when I die, I'll
[34:45] Speaker 1: make sure to have eleven dollars and sixty three cents
[34:49] Speaker 1: in my pants pocket. I wish you well. I tell
[34:53] Speaker 1: you to tell me how that goes, but for obvious reasons,
[34:58] Speaker 1: you would not be able to. But I appreciate the comment. Anyway,
[35:01] Speaker 1: thanks so much, says all. Well, now it's time to
[35:04] Speaker 1: thank our Patreon supporter of the day. Thank you to Brian,
[35:08] Speaker 1: Patreon supporter since September twenty twenty two, currently supporting the
[35:13] Speaker 1: podcast at the rookie level of two dollars more per month. Again,
[35:18] Speaker 1: thank you so much for your support, and that will
[35:21] Speaker 1: do it for today. If you are enjoying the podcast,
[35:25] Speaker 1: please follow us using your favorite podcast software and be
[35:29] Speaker 1: sure to rate and review the podcast wherever you download
[35:32] Speaker 1: it from. We'll be back next Monday with another episode
[35:36] Speaker 1: of The Saint, but join us back here tomorrow for
[35:40] Speaker 1: the Big Story.
[35:42] Speaker 5: Where over to missus Jone.
[35:43] Speaker 17: I went over there once, the youngster Miami said it
[35:46] Speaker 17: only happened at night. And I've seen her walking out
[35:49] Speaker 17: in the white nightgown with the moon shining down hun
[35:51] Speaker 17: her walking around in the back of the house, outside
[35:53] Speaker 17: the ship just behind.
[35:54] Speaker 13: The house, five times in a circle, walking around and
[35:58] Speaker 13: then just stockstill. And she wasn't talking to no god
[36:02] Speaker 13: in the sky. She was talking to the devil underfoot.
[36:05] Speaker 3: Or what do you think she did?
[36:06] Speaker 7: Missus Stones.
[36:06] Speaker 17: I've known them both, miss Herkimer and her mother going
[36:08] Speaker 17: on to forty years. She killed her Mah.
[36:11] Speaker 8: That's what she done, killed her mother.
[36:13] Speaker 17: As God is my witness.
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