Here’s a Green Hornet episode I haven’t written about yet: The 1948 tale’ s title “The Hornet Bats for a Pitcher” sums it up… Listed as June 01, 1948, episode 861 in a log kept by the Old Time Radio Researchers group.
A pitcher sent back to the minors keeps losing, leading a Daily Sentinel sports reporter to suspect something is wrong involving gambling.
That leads his boss, publisher Britt Reid, to put on his Green Hornet mask and investigate …
Unfortunately, the reporter jumps to obvious conclusions and doesn’t catch on that the ballplayer is being framed… no great journalism tips here.
Even the eavesdropping Britt Reid reaches the wrong conclusion from an overheard phone call … but shows up just in time to help out the real heroes of the day — the young man’s pals from the baseball team.
2024 update: Green Hornet episodes currently are available in high-quality and documented Radio Spirits CD collections, although some are out of print, and for online streaming or downloading at commercial and free sites including Radio Spirits Downloads, Radio Echoes, collections such as those at the Internet Archive and the Old Time Radio Researchers library.
Newspaper Heroes on the Air 