Get this and get it straight.

Crime is a sucker's road.

And those who travel

it wind up in the gut of the prison of the grave.

The story you were about to hear is true.

Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.

The Adventures of Sam Spade, Detective.

The Adventures of the Saint,

starring Vincent Price.

Bob Bailey, in the exciting adventures

of the man with the action-packed expense account.

America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator...

Yours truly, Johnny Dollar.

... Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Hello and welcome to a midweek bonus episode of Down These Main Streets.

A new baseball season begins this week, and to celebrate the return of America's pastime, we've got a pair of old-time radio mysteries set in and around the diamond.

First up is a syndicated adventure of Boston Blackie starring Richard Kalmer, where a ball player

is murdered right in the middle of a game.

Then Vincent Price stars as the

saint in baseball murder, originally aired on NBC on September 3rd, 1950, where a veteran player

asks Simon Templar to investigate rumors of fixed games. I'll be back on Sunday with another

regular episode of the podcast,

but now let's play ball with Boston Blackie and the Saint. The

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