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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
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