The Hollywood Posts sports writer Jimmy Jones Charles Quigley yearns to be a crime reporter and thus looks for foul play on even the most routine assignments In writing a piece about a girls softball team Jimmy discovers that their sponsor Foy Harris John Gallaudet is a notorious racketeer who has supposedly gone straight Jimmy suspects Foy is still up to no good He begins hanging around the team to do a bit of snooping and also to be near the cute new pitcher Ann Casey Jacqueline Wells