Baseball And Gambling: Boston Blackie (April 29, 1947)

“Baseball And Gambling” is an episode of Boston Blackie, the old-time radio show, first broadcast April 29, 1947. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Gambler Rooley Carter cancels Jimmy Saunders' $50,000 debt in exchange for introducing his baseball-player brother Sammy to a beautiful woman named Catherine Gray. Boston Blackie suspects Carter is using Sammy to throw games, but when a man named Joe Ash is found murdered, Blackie becomes the prime suspect. Blackie investigates the case at a baseball game while Inspector Faraday keeps watch.

A major league baseball stadium and surrounding locations in the city; includes a gambling house, Blackie's apartment, and the baseball field during a game.

Characters: Boston Blackie, Inspector Faraday, Jimmy Saunders, Sammy Saunders, Rooley Carter, Catherine Gray, Joe Ash, Mary Wesley

Listen for: The clever exposure of a smuggling scheme hidden inside baked cakes, Blackie's famous "maybe" catch phrase, and the revelation of stolen diamonds baked into a birthday cake at the baseball game.

Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.