Big league baseball would seem to have been a hard sell in 1942.
World War II was not going well for the United States in the
Pacific and not much better in Europe. Moreover, the country was in
drastically short supply of ships, planes, submarines, torpedoes,
and other war materials, and Uncle Sam needed men, millions of
them, including those from twenty-one through thirty-five years of
age who had been ordered to register for the draft, the age range
of most big league baseball players. But after a "green light" from
President Roosevelt, major league baseball played on in 1942 as it
would throughout the war. It turned out to be an extraordinary
season, too, spiced by a brash, young, and swift St. Louis Cardinal
team that stunned the baseball world by winning the World Series.
The 1942 season would be overshadowed by war, though, with many
people wondering whether it was really all right for four hundred
seemingly healthy and athletic men to play a child's game and earn
far more money than the thousands of young Americans whose lives
were at risk as they fought the Germans and Japanese abroad. In
Season of '42, veteran sportswriter Jack Cavanaugh takes a look at
this historic baseball season, how it was shaped and affected by
the war and what, ultimately, it meant to America. Skyhorse
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