"Scrappy" Baseball Promotions in World War II

from Clear the Field Podcast · host Paul Jackson and Ted Walker

In 1942, major league baseball turned a few of New York’s green cathedrals into makeshift junk yards.Highlights- FDR nationalizes the National Game- What scrap metal meant to the war effort- Dispatches from the Junk Drawer War- The Dodgers pitch in to help New York meet its quota- A scramble at the Ebbets Field “scrap gate”- Next time: Metal mania moves to Manhattan Get full access to Project 3.18 at www.project-318.com/subscribe

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