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Baseball Historian Episode 24 Lux Radio Theatre "Alibi Ike"

Published: June 17, 2006, 7:55 p.m.

Baseball Historian presents The Lux Radio Theatre. April 19, 1937.  "Alibi Ike"

A baseball comedy about the pitcher whose talent on the mound was equalled only by his ability with his mouth. A natural role for Joe E. Brown! Babe Ruth and his wife Claire, speak from their apartment in New York. Illustrator Russell Patterson is interviewed. Joe E. Brown, Helen Chandler, Babe Ruth (intermission guest), Cecil B. DeMille, Charles Emerson (doubles), Claire Ruth (intermission guest), Cy Kendall, Ingebord Tillisch (performer, commercial spokesman), Joe Franz, Leora Thatcher (performer, commercial spokesman), Lou Merrill (doubles), Louis Silvers (music director), Marion Dennis (performer, commercial spokesman), Melville Ruick (announcer), Roscoe Karns, Ross Forrester, Russell Patterson (intermission guest: commercial illustrator), Wally Maher, William Frawley, William Wister Haines (screenwriter), Ring Lardner (author), Frank Nelson (doubles, program opening announcer), Frank Woodruff (director), George Wells (adaptor), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects).