Play Ball (Aired August 30, 1949)
From 1949-1956 the Mutual Broadcasting System ran a series entitled John Steele, Adventurer. This was an anthology series, introduced by the title character, who has apparently had trouble keeping a job: he served at various times as ship's captain, baseball league president, county sheriff, State Department special agent in Turkey, etc. Each story is told from the point of view of the main character, a friend of Steele's. Steele himself makes cameo appearances in the series. The series featured Ted Mallie as the announcer (Mallie also announced for The Shadow and I Love A Mystery) and Don Douglas as John Steele, and was directed by Elliot Drake. It often promised “suspense and hard, fast action,” and nearly always delivered. It had excellent production values, and its plots that were often complex. The stories are reminiscent of pulp stories from magazines like Argosy or All-Story.
THIS EPISODE:
August 30, 1949. Mutual network. "Play Ball". Sustaining. "One man against an angry crowd, a foul ball and a fog." "The fans in the stands are part of what makes baseball the grerat American pasttime." Don Douglas, Sylvan Levin (conductor), Robert Monroe (producer), Elliott Drake (writer, director), Charles Holmes, Grace Keddy, Ross Martin, Al Patterson, Joe Halgenson, Jimmy Powers, Ted Mallie (announcer). 28:52. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.
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