Radio review - Lux - "It Happens Every Spring" (1949) **

There's great wish fulfilment in a college lecturer becoming a champion baseball player but its lessened by the fact he is basically cheating and not even through his own ability (an accident in the lab creates a device that repels a baseball... was this the inspiration for The Absent Minded Professor?) Also, even in 1949 was it possible for someone to be a very famous baseball player and not have their face splashed everywhere (he doesn't want his fiancee and father in law to find out). The relationship between the lecturer and his catcher is nicely done, though. Ray Milland is good at this sort of comedy, although it would have been better with a less obviously English star.