NPR Sunday Puzzle (May 10, 2026): Baseball and Movie Franchises

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Q: Think of a popular film franchise with many sequels. Hidden in consecutive letters inside its name is a place mentioned multiple times in the Bible. Replace that place with a single letter and you’ll name a Major League Baseball team. What franchise and team are these?

I was just reading about Dorothea Waley Singer who spent time arranging and cataloguing all medical and scientific manuscripts in Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the Middle Ages to the early modern era. I don’t know why I mention that, but I’ll explain on Thursday.