The Blue Lamp and then to White City Stadium. Most of the chase is a logical following of Riley's car apart from when the car goes from Hythe Road NW10 into Sterne Street – Hythe Road in 1949 was a dead end. "The Blue Lamp" premiered on 20 January 1950 at the Odeon Leicester Square in London, and the reviewer for "The Times" found the depiction of the police work very plausible and realistic, and praised the performances of Dirk Bogarde and Peggy Evans, but found Jack Warner's and Jimmy Hanley's two policemen portrayed in a too traditional way: ""There is an indefinable
The Kid Who Only Hit Homers The Kid Who Only Hit Homers The Kid Who Only Hit Homers (1972) is a children's novel about baseball written by Matt Christopher. It was the first in a series of four novels featuring a young man (Sylvester Coddmeyer III) who is trained to play baseball by supernatural visitations from former Major League players. Sylvester Coddmeyer III is having trouble hitting on his little league baseball team and, as a result, is thinking about quitting baseball. Sylvester loved baseball, but he wasn't what you'd call a good hitter. He had decided against joining the team when he met George Baruth.