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- Radio crime show host "The Fox" finds himself on the trail of a serial killer while a suspect himself.
- A washed up baseball player (Lloyd Nolan) returns to Brooklyn to manage his old team but ends up clashing with the beautiful new owner (Carole Landis)
- The New York Yankees defeat the Brooklyn Dodgers for the 1947 World's Championship.
- Long ago and far away there was a baseball team that played in Brooklyn, New York, known formally as the Brooklyn Dodgers but lovingly by their fans as "Dem Bums" (because they seldom won the pennant and the team-and-city motto was "Wait 'Till Next Year")and their most hated rivals was the cross-town New York Giants and, give or take a few bad calls by umpires, and outfielders who let fly balls drop everywhere but in a glove, and baserunners standing on the same bag, and players who threw behind the runner streaking for home... all was right in this world dominated by Ebbets Field. This "Pacemaker" from Paramount takes a look at the 1946 season of the Brooklyn Dodgers, managed by Leo "the Lip" Durocher, who married movie star Laraine Day, got suspended from baseball for a year by the Commissioner for being too palsy with the bookies at the race track and was the first to say "Nice Guys Finish Last." It also takes a look at the fans who believed that the only good umpire was a dead umpire, and an even closer look at most famous fan, Hilda Chester. Dodgers radio broadcaster Red Barber is also on hand. The Dodgers didn't win (again) in 1946 but wait 'till next year.
- Mel Allen provides the narration while stars of the golf course, the baseball diamond (where all the players wear baseball caps and none wear baseball hats since there was no such item), and aquatic performers in Florida show off their skills and style. Golfer Patty Berg hits a few golf balls, while the American and National League All-Stars (all wearing baseball caps and none wearing baseball hats) show their wares at the All-Star Game in Boston.
- Interviews with a handful of prior World Series heroes-mixed with footage of their respective exploits-form the basis for a discussion of the process by which one crack of the bat can transform an ordinary ball player into a national idol.