Jack's love letters - Jack buys a baseball team: Jack Benny (May 1, 1955)

“Jack's love letters - Jack buys a baseball team” is an episode of Jack Benny, the old-time radio show, first broadcast May 1, 1955. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Jack Benny finds his old love letters in the attic while Rochester is doing spring cleaning. Jack reminisces about his school days, his violin teachers and his youthful sweethearts while his staff gathers for a rehearsal at his home. Publicity man Steve Bradley arrives with a plan to boost Jack's public profile and announces that Jack has acquired a baseball team. Jack's staff, including Dennis Day, Don Wilson and secretary Jeanette Eiman, react to the news as the rehearsal is repeatedly delayed by late scripts.

Jack Benny's home in Beverly Hills, on a spring day, with rehearsal planned for his radio show.

Characters: Jack Benny, Rochester, Mary Livingstone, Dennis Day, Don Wilson, Jeanette Eiman, Steve Bradley, Mabel

Listen for: Steve Bradley's announcement that Jack now owns a baseball team, and the name the team is given.

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.