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Ellery Queen: The World Series Crime (EP1594) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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Great Detectives dot net. Well, now it's time for today's episode of the
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Adventures of Ellery Queen. The original air nate is October the Sei of nineteen
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forty three and the title is the world series Crime Romo Seltzer Presents the Adventures
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of Ellerie Queen. Tonight, the makers of Bromo Seltzer bring you another thrilling
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adventure with Elry Queen, the celebrated gentleman detective in person. Ellary Queen again
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gives you a chance to match with with him as he relates another story of
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a crime heal and unravels. Then at the point where he was able to
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solve the mystery, he stops the play gives you a chance to guess the
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criminal's name. In the studio to night, we have as our guests Ken
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Sears, New York Yankee Catcher and our Flynn, business editor of the weekly
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newspapers Sporting News. We hope to have with us too the Star second Basement
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of the Yankees, Joe Gordon, but he was unable to join us.
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However, Messrs Sears and Flynn have accepted Ellery Queen's challenge to solve the mystery
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before the solution is revealed. And now Ellery Queen, Master Detective and your
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host for the next half hour, Thank you and his chapel, and good
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evening, ladies and gentlemen. In tonight's story, Nicky and I quite unexpectedly
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become involved in the crucial game of the World series. I call it Adventure
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of the World Series Crime the series, and you all know what's happened.
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The Eagles won the first three games, then the Larks came back to take
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the fourth and fifth games, and now the Larks are leading in the sixth
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game, three to two. Here's the pitch four four, the walk for
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Henderson. Tho's the bases for the Eagles. Two outs. We'll see.
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Now, well, here's the Great Sparks himself coming to battle. Let's see.
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Then'll score two runs, the Eagles will win four to three, and
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the World Series will be over. But if the Larks can stop Sparky again,
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the series will be all tied. The three games apiece and the playoff
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game tomorrow. There is strike no. Everybody's asking what's happened to Sparky,
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champion batterer of the major leagues. He was an Arkansas Tornado in the first
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three series games, hit over five hundred, won the first three games for
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the Eagles, almost single handed, and then he folded. It's a pitch
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Franke two two. Sparky didn't get a hit in the fourth game, hard
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offense, and today, in three official tries, the Great Sparks has popped
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up once and struck out twice with men in scoring positions. There is all
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that's one and two on Sparky. You Now, there's the ugly rumors around,
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but take it from your uncle Ted, they're just malarkey, you know,
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you've heard them. The Sparky's been drugs. Sparks has sold out to
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the gamblers. It's here, it is stake three s Fucky didn't even lift
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his bat off his shoulder. He's out. Well that's the game. Both
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guys it out in three games of ease. But what's happened to start?
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Mister Dayton, owner of the Eagles, wants to know. Mac McCune,
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fighting manager of the Eagles, wants to know what's happened to Sparky. Yeah,
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no, check a man up mister Dayton's private office. What no pray?
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Listen Weisenheimer. I'll give it to you in plain English. There ain't
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no more tickets. Oh hello, mister mclub boy said, yeah, he's
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waiting for you. Say, mister mcclub, I want to kick you off.
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The boss said, me and the boyfriend could see the day's game from
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his box. Well you know what that means. Yeah, usual Dayton's ducking
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out in the pinch. Well, arrestlers still think you can lick them bombs,
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mister mclub say, Susie want to see me mister Dayton. Oh,
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come in, Mac Mac, I'm leaving you in complete charge. Going away
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to day mister Dayton, I notice you have your golf clubs already. Yes,
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I'm running out of the country club. I couldn't stand the strain of
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the final game. Mac, my heart you know, yeah, go ahead,
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I'll phone you the result. Will It's not as if I were running
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out on you or the team Mac COEs not mister Dayton, your bench box,
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of course, but you were leaving me in charge. Look, Mike
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to McCune, He's had half a dozen chances to win the series in the
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last three games. And what's he done? Docky coos high call. He
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couldn't bet a ball with a coal shot at a ball bat bat. Oh
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what a fool I've been, of course the bat. What are you raving
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about? Mac? Look, mister Dayton, if your heart can stand the
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strain of making one phone call before you go out to play golf, just
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one, mind you we can still win this series. Phone call. I
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want a detective. Pay any fee, he asked, but have him here
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in fifteen minutes. A detective? What detective? Mac? The best in
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the world, mister Dayton. If there's one man can save this world series
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for us, it's every queen and there, ladies and gentlemen, you have
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the beginning of our mystery. We'll be back in just a moment to tell
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you more. Hurse Ernest Chappell. You know nobody minds hard work these days
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because we're working for victory. But what are you going to do when you're
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stopped by a common sick headache? I must edith I the Fremont Avenue,
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Los Athos, California, has the answer to that, she writes. I
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work at the Red Cross seven dollars a day, five and a half days
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a week, and spend what time I have left practicing my music. This
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constant working study is quite a strain, and sometimes I get a common sick
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headache and my nerves feel on edge. Well one evening, while listening to
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your very entertaining ELLERI Crean program, I heard your clever educated train tell about
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Belmo Seltz, and I decided to try it the next time I got a
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headache. Was I delighted with a quick effect of relief. I got hi.
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In just a short time, I head fell a lot better, and
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my jumpy nerves began to come I'm I told everyone at the office about it,
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but most of them informed me that they were already familiar with Blmo Seltzer's
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grand health and had been relying on it for a long time. Now I'm
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never without Blumo Seltzer. I keep a bottle in my desk at the office
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and another at home. And that's a wise idea for everybody now. These
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days, you never know when you're liable to get a common sake headache.
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So if you don't already have a big blue bottle of Bromo Seltzer in your
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whole medicine chest, get one tomorrow for sure. And how back to our
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mystery. In answer to Mac Mclub's phone call, Ellery Nikki the Inspector and
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Sergeant Veeley, I've just arrived. Oh Mac, Hello Hillary. You know
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my father Inspector Queen Inspected. I am Max, Sergeant v Lee and this
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is my secretary NICKI Porter. When they heard you on me on a case,
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Mac, I couldn't shake him off. There's anything we can do to
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help the Eagles win. Mac, Thanks, Inspector Queen were Eagle fans,
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all of it. We need them all this border. I got a weak
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Sorry on eagles, Mac, you want to flock up other sergeant mister Dayton
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in a place where he won't bother us, Ellary. If you can solve
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a mystery in three hours, we've still got a chance to win. If
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you can't. Doesn't sound like Mac mccoon talking three hoards. Give me the
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facts, Well, ELLERI, you know ball players, they're all kind of
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superstitious. Yeah, remember how Babe Ruth always touched second base on his way
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in from right field at the end of Rubbery Emmings. Spocky's worst, Sergeant.
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He's got a pet bat. Ellery's got to find one of those nasty
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things that fly around at night. Mac's a baseball manager, Nick, you're
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not a zoo keeper. It means a baseball bat. Go on, Mac,
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Well, Ellary with that pet bat of his. Spocky's the greatest hitterer
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in the game today. Lenardo is just a bomber. Hold it, Sergeant
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Mac. What happened to Spark's bat? And when? On the morning after
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the third game? Spocky told me about it, But it went clean out
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of my head. Somebody stole his bat. Ah. If Sparky gets back
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his bet, you think you'll snap out of a slump neck, inspector,
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I'll eat your bed and the launch dug out. If he don't. Ellery's
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been asked to find stolen jewels, stolen documents, but a stolen baseball?
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Dat why Nikki Matt with the bat stolen from the clubhouse and not Wellerwy Spocky
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was so nervous about it he wouldn't leave it in the regular bat fack.
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He took it home with him. Where did he live? Well, Spocky
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got married just before the series well series of Sparky honeymoon sort of, Miss
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Porter. So mister Dayton gives Spocky and Lily that's Poky's wife, the use
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of his apartment during the series. They've been living there. What are we
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waiting for? Let's go his Dayton's apartment. Okay, Mac, Many,
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you park out here in the hall and watch this front door. Huh.
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We don't want to be the stair lad ey knock spiked. They ain't raading
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me out in the call in the case like this, Baily, Yes,
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sir, Mac come on here, I love Pocky. This is Inspector Queen,
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his son and miss Corner. I'm gonna meet the missus Lily. You
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see. It's awful good to you folks to help Sparky. I reckon,
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I'm past being healthily. Maybe not, mister Sparks. When did you first
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discover your bat was stolen? Well, mister Queen, I always put the
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bat in the hall closet there the first thing I woke up the morning of
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the fourth game. Well, I look in the closet and Uncle Sam,
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that's my pet name for the bat. You see, Pocky calls everything we
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owned by a pet name. Mister Queen, it was skunk back holding the
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boss of the chickens. Starkey calls him Hitler. And I'm getting to like
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you, Spocky. The bat was missing, Sparky when you first looked in
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the closet that morning, no inspector that time, Uncle Sam standing there,
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all right, But then all that more, and then we have visitors,
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and when they go away, and Lily and me get ready to mosey over
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at the ballpark while I opened the closet door and Uncle Sam's gone. How
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many visitors did you have? Wasn't it three? Lily Horst Parker for visitors,
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that means one of them must be the thief reconsole, Miss Porter,
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I wasn't counting mister Dayton, Lily, He's not exactly a visitor. This
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apartment being his well, mister Dayton, come first. He forgot to take
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his calf bag with him when he gave up this apartment, so he comes
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to pick it up. Tell mister Queen who the other three was? Spoky?
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Okay, Mac first there was Bigolie, big Dame Gambler. I smell
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a rat And what did mister f want? Well, it's it's sort of
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personal. Oh, Spocky, you mustn't hold anything back if and you want
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mister Queen to help Lily's right, Spocky, Well, mic I love Hellery.
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Spocky's the idol of sports fans all over the country, and he deserves
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to be. He's such a good example for the kids. Don't drink,
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don't smoke, a square shooter. But he's got one weakness that's gonna get
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him in a heap of trouble. It already has. I know, I
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read about it in the papers. That's where they pitch gambling. Looks that
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way, Dad, Commissioner had you on the carpet about it, didn't he,
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Sparky, Yeah, inspect, but Spoky won't listen. He wastes most
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of his dough paying off. Yeah. I tried so hard to make him
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stop. I even refused to marry him until he promised to quit. Oh,
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Nicky, he didn't quit. Be a good girl, Nikki and keep
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Missus Spark's company in the next room. So you old for girley money.
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Sparky and he came here yesterday morning to clickton. When you start talking about
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gambling, Spoky shuts up like a clam. Yes, who's outside? Ask
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him to see Sparky? All right, speak of the devil, Sergeant huh
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A big shot for Gary V All right, inspector, step into the parlor,
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mister Fly. Be careful with your offends you from time. Oh,
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I beg your father, Missus Sparks come back tomorrowing. Well now now I
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don't know. I'll be too late to expect the queen and I see you
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first when Umpire's eye you'll not see him. Be goodful. How you talking,
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mister Pheli Sargent Ready you pig my business with mister Spots. You can
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wait? You going? Wait, mister, what do you want? I'm
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seeing half things are Maybe I better tell the truth, the truth you told
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me. Came to see you the other day about the money you own,
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Spots. I didn't want to worry you. Mac mister Peggoli here, take
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care of what you spilled here? He was willing to forget my I oh
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you if, mister Spots, I wanted you? If what if I threw
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the series? Mister queen, that's it, You're thirty back drop. Now,
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I'll give you a demonstration of the famous you are. Ah's better fireworks.
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Now, mister did you have any bundles or packages with you? And
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you visited this apartment the other day all of a sudden not talking English?
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Huh No, he didn't have mister Quinny or sure Sparky. Did he wear
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a top coat? Nauser? Okay? And him I Phoebe put a tail
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on. Though. I think we'll be seeing more of mister pigg Come on,
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pig back Parky. Who were the other two visitors you had? Who
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came? After all? After mister comes Colin Colin, manager of the lox
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YEP, and after Collins comes Buck Fisher. Fisher's the first basement on your
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own team, Mac, isn't he? Yeah? Spoky the fuck out of
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the batting Championship by three points less than two hours left. Times running out,
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Dad, You and Mac tackle manager Colins the locks Nicky and I will
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call him the vanquished Eagle batsman Buck Fisher. You'll find balls up in the
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stadium now already good. Let's say this time, Dad, we check with
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each other at the stadium. Barston give us the other details on the way
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over. Hurry at Balans. We've known each other since you're sand that day.
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We don't have to spy around. Well, what's on your mind?
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Inspector Dalans wanted you, the manager of the opposition team, drop into see
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Sparks, the star batter of Max's team during the World Series. It's your
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little idea, Mac, try to frame me just before the start of the
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last game. You know me better than that, Collins, Okay, Inspector.
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I ran up to see Spoky about our bet. Not bet two thousand
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bucks steven money on the World Series winner. Spocky better team to win,
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Collins, that's a hot one. You ever hear a Spoky betting against himself?
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Sure he better. I'm his team, but his team taking a first
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three games. I thought Spocky might be willing to raise the andes at the
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big ards the courts, but no, soap Spocky said no, he was
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wearing Mac. But his wife said, Nick, Collins, are you wearing
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a top coat that morning for me a top coat, Miss Weather. Have
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any bundles with you? Crime? And he no, say what's this all
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about? Anyway? I get it? Man, Let's go Mac just a
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minute, Inspector Collins. Yeah, Mac, who you pitching today? Seven
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Knight's paper? There's a daughter of the Eagles locker room nicky company Eagle.
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Excuse me? Are you Buck Fisher? Yeah? See out in the field,
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o you? But don't you know ellery Queen never heard of him?
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Lady, Hey, you're not the new sports writer for the Herald as tight.
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No, Fisher, I'm a detective. Detective because a few simple questions.
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Mister Fisher, why did you pay a visit to Sparks the morning of
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the fourth game? Sparky and I had a bet off season man who'd wind
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up at the best batting average. Sparky won by three points and his hide
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and I saw him do it, made five hits in the last game of
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the season. Oh what so, why'd you drop him to see Sparky that
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morning? Fisher? Oh? We had another bet who'd get the most hits
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in the series. Sparky hit like a hotsifire the first three games, but
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I figured it forward. That morning. I comes up when I says,
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Sparky, how about doubling the bet? Did he Fisher? He says yes,
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but his wife says no, he said, what's the matter, Sparky,
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cold feet? Sparky says okay ah. Then his wife's that's the water.
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What's so? I beat it? But the double BET's on. Now
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there's a signal for batting practice. I gotta go out and clout a couple.
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Oh, mister Fisher, Yeah, did you wear a top coat that
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morning? Or carry any packages? One? No, miss Porter, why
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did you ask Fisher those last two questions? If you can ask him of
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Pegoli, mister Queen, I can ask him of Fisher. That's what I
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come on, miss copycat. Let's find that from the stature you learned exactly
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as much from Collins as Ellery and I did from Bucks Fisher. Yeah,
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yeah, Nikki, a great big goosey uh cowery game will be starting in
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a few minutes. Are we getting anywhere from well that we haven't even got
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the first space? Hillary, when on ever finding that back? And when
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we start? I wouldn't say that there, don't tell me? You know,
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yes, I know where Sparky is bad is Nikki. There's only a
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fifty fifty chance that's still there. Dad, step aside with me. I'll
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tell you what to do. Now you tell up ellery and his petty secret.
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Yeah, I wonder what's cooking? Nearly two hours instead made that phone
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called Nicki and no sign of anybody. You'll wear out the sidewalk gallery.
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Two hours waiting at the ballplayer's entrance, and we could have been inside with
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Dad and Villie watching the game. Dad, what any is it? Yes
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to the night son? What's this going now? Rodgers sasporter one? Enough
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at a large give up ellery. It's too late now. You must have
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been wrong this time, Nikki, I tell you I wasn't wrong. I
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couldn't have been. How can I go in there and face mac McCune without
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that pet batter spot You can't do the impossible ellery he gave you only a
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few hours, Nikki, this is it? Yes, here it is the
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bat. Hooray Mack mack, We've got it. Are in? Time's in
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the plue? Why the snakes of Saint Patrick? It is? It's Pocky's
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bat. He's false for it, bull and cross Pocky back. He's on
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his way to the plane right for the place to fight one. Thank how's
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the same. But we're behind in this place the same as Jesse wonder nothing
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last the nine faces fulled two out of pockey up farocks get a hit,
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Any hit will drive in two runs if we win target check all right?
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Out of your feet, Andy, what is it? Mac? You're not
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benching your bat's pocky your own fat here. Now go on out there and
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use it, Uncle Sam. Don't you worry, Mac, Good old Uncle
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Sam won't let you down. One side. Fellas there, ladies and gentlemen,
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you have the mystery, and I hope with solution as well. Nikki,
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will you be good enough to introduce our guest. I'm Chad to Techtis
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for this evening. Well, Ellery, our guests tonight are certainly the right
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men to try to solve this mystery, because both of them know just about
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all there is to know about baseball. And when I tell you who they
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are, you'll see what I mean. Our first guest is Ken Sears,
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capture of the New York Yankees and son of Ziggie Sears, famous National League
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umpire. You can be sure that when the Yankees meet to Saint Louis Cardinals
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for the first World Series game October fifth, more than a few eyes will
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be watching Ken Sears. All right, Nikky, I'll agree the first guest
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knows baseball, But what about the second. Well, our second guest isn't
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a ball player, but that doesn't mean he doesn't know about baseball. He's
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Art Flynn's business manager of the Sporting News, the Bible of the baseball world.
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Mister Flynn has been at the Sporting News for sixteen years and has covered
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every World Series in that time. Mister Flint is the Sporting News a tremendous
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international circulation, So many of its old readers are now in the service but
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still yelling for their copies, and incidentally they get them. And now,
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Ellice, mister Sears, I have two questions for you this evening. Number
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One, where did I find Sparky's bat? And two? Who stole it?
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Well, mister Queen, I believe you found that bat and mister Dayton's
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golf bag. To Dayton's golf bag, and how did it get there?
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Well, I believe mister Dayton visited Sparky's apartment that morning, and I believe
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he stole that bat and went out the golf course to play golf and missed
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that last game of the world series. Thank you very much, mister serious.
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And now, mister Flynn, where did I find Sparky's bat and who
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stole it? I think I've got to agree with Ken sears ellery that he
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found it in the golf bag because no one had a top code. And
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secondly, i'd say that when that the person that put it there was Lily
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the White because when they were talking about if he threw the series and she
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walked out and said no when they wanted to double his bet. It's the
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case of that famous French saying la femme, Thank you very much, mister
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Flynn, and mister Sears. You'll have to wait a moment to find out
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whether you solve the night's mystery correctly. And in the meanwhile, he's Ernest
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Chapel, who it develops is up on his modern slang that really means I'm
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hep to the jive, I suppose, and all because I happened to mention
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to him that when you have a headache, you just can't be on the
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beam. In other words, you don't feel one. But if you're hip,
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that is to say, if you know your way around. The chances
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are that you know our bromo Seltzer gives quick, effective relief from the three
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way misery that being off in the company a common cickette. Yes, Romosltzer
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acts three ways. I'm head, nerves and stomach. Try romosltz the next
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time you have a common cickettache. See how quickly it has you're cooking with
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gas or, as we all fogy say, feeling more like your old self
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again. But hellery, where did you find the doll? That was simple,
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Nikki? Once I knew the facts, only four people dayton Ta,
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Goolie, Collins and Fisher visited Sparky between the last time he saw the bat
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in the closet and the time he saw it was gone. So obviously one
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of those four stole the bat from the apartment. Well, I said that
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long ago, ellery, But which one? The important question wasn't who took
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the bat, Nikki, but how How was the bat taken out of the
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apartment under Spark's nose without spark seeing it strike one? After all, a
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bat at the size of Alpa thirty six inches long a solid hunk of hiccary,
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So that's why he asked about the packages and the topcoat, said right,
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Dad, But none of the four visitors carried a package or or a
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topcoat. The topcoat idea with a shot in the dark. Actually, you
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can't conceal a thirty six inch baseball bat under a coat inside a trouser lake
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for that matter, and still walk like a human being. Yet the bat
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was taken from the apartment. How there was one article taken out of that
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apartment that was big enough to conceal a thirty six inch baseball bat. But
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Spark said nothing went outside, wrong, Dad, Spark said, one thing
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did go out. Remember dayton golf bag Titan, the are the eagles,
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the one who want the spars his apartment. That's right. Dayton came back
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for his golf bag, Spock, he said, and with the top zipper
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it over, it is held a baseball that can not be seen a sprig
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toe. Now, either Dayton put the bat in his golf bag or someone
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else did. If Dayton were the thief, the first thing he do once
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he was out of the hotel was get rid of the bat. But if
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someone else put the bat and the Dayton's bag, and Dayton hadn't yet looked
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inside, the bat would still be there? To Nick, he ever told
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me to phone the chief of police nears to Dayton's country club. She rushed
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to the cup, found Dayton's bag still an open and the bats inside.
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Mister Dayton can't be the thief. And there's well too. Who stole the
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bat? Who get it? Wa? Who hit it in Dalton's gob bat?
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Well? Who was in the apartment when Dayton took away his bag?
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Not the goalie, not Columns, no Fisher, None of them had arrived
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yet only two people were there besides Dayton, Sparks and his wife. If
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Sparky steal his own bat, would he deliberately get rid of the one thing
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he needed most to win? His bat now couldn't be Sparked then it must
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be his own white Missus Sparks saw that bat. He's the only one left,
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So Sparky's wife must be the thief. I'll pray my stars, but
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he take every QUI, Missus Sparks, will will you come here? Please
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want me? Mister Quinn. You've heard what I just said, Lily,
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Why did you do it? Yeah? I thought if Sparky lost his pet
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back, he'd lose his pets and Colin's incisions put all in all the others.
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I thought telling surance, but I told you I didn't realize what it
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was meaning. Mac and the Sparky's team makes no fans. Well, I
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was scared stark Gun enough Powell Llery, do we have to tell Sparky if
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everything comes out all right? I don't see why. Nikki, Oh,
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you're a darling. Hi, don't forget Uncle Sam. Uncle Sam came through
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him the clutch and he always will. And there, ladies and gentlemen,
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you have a solution to the mystery. I want to thank mister Sears and
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mister Flynn for appearing guest arm Chad Detectives this evening. We want especially to
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compliment mister Flynn on his skill in solving the crime. We have for both
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mister Sears and mister Flynn a personal gift from Bromo Seltzer, also an autographed
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copy of my latest mystery anthology, The Female of the Species, and a
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subscription to Ellery Queen's Mystery and magazine. In just a minute, Allerie will
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be back to tell you about next week's mystery. Meanwhile, here's a friendly
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tip from an old pal our famous talking bromo seltzer trains head three ways.
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Why yes, fight headaches three ways with bromo seltzer. You see, common
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sick headaches may often affect you three ways, pounding heads, nerves that jingle
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jangle jingle, and upset stomach. So it seems sensible to take bromo seltzer,
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which is scientifically designed to fight all three Yes, bromo seltzer gives quick
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relief from that pain in your head. Bromo seltzer helps calm you nerves,
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Gromo seltzer helps settle upset stomach. Now you can take gromo seltzer while it's
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still visiting or after it settles down. Use it only as directed on the
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label. For frequent or recurring headaches. To your doctor. What is a
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common sick headache that has your feeling miserable? Let our talking train tell you
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how to lick it by heare say, Ali, come on back here a
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minute. You got anything to say before we close up this shop? Yes,
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Radio with Adam Graham and now let's get back into the show. Welcome back.
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I will say whoever wrote this script didn't really have a good understanding of
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the rules of Major League Baseball on betting on baseball, because Rule twenty one,
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which basically has been in place since the Great Scandal Involving the Black Saw
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nineteen nineteen, has some pretty clear guidelines. Any player or person connected with
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a club who shall offer or give any gift or reward to a player or
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person connected with another club for services rendered or supposed to be or to have
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been rendered in defeating or attempting to defeat a competing club. And any player
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or person connected with a club who shall solicit or success or accept from a
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player connected with another club any gifts or reward for any such services rendered or
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supposed to have been rendered, who having been offered any such gift or rewards,
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shall fail to inform as league president or the commissioner immediately of such offer,
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and of all facts and circumstances. Therewith shall be declared and eligible for
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not less than three years. And any player, umpire club employee who shall
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bet any sum whatsoever upon any ballgame in connection with which the batter has no
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duty the better has no duty to perform, shall be declared ineligible for one
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year. And any player, umpire, club, or league official or employee
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who shall bet any somewhatsoever upon any baseball game and connection which the better has
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a duty to perform, shall be declared permanently ineligible. And I think particularly
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the bet with the opposing manager would fall under that ladder rule. So yeah,
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this was not something that you could have gotten away with in nineteen forty
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three and particularly not have it just kind of excused as a minor fault.
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I also find it kind of weird that Inspector Queen and Bealley, you know,
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come along to help Ellery and the investigation. I guess things must have
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been slow over in New York City homicide, though I guess it is nice
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to get a non murder case. I don't know how fair it was for
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Ellery to be asking about the overcoade if he knew that it couldn't be smuggled
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out, because really that was a red herring for the audience at home.
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At any rate, we do turn to some listener comments and feedback. Sarah
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says, I just wanted to say that I've been a big fan of your
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podcast for the past three months since I discovered it. I've always been a
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huge detective fan, books, shows, movies, and now radio. You
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guys are doing an amazing job, and please keep up the great work.
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Once a week, I have a mile and a half hour or an hour
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and a half commute and your show makes great company. Thanks from Sarah,
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Well, thanks so much, Sarah. Do appreciate your comments, and that
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will actually do it for today. Be sure and listen again next week for
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another episode of the Adventures of Ellery Queen and Tomorrow is The Adventures of Philip
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