Season of '42
Joe D., Teddy Ballgame, and Baseball's Fight to Survive a Turbulent First Year of War
Jack Cavanaugh
- 320 Pages
- May 25, 2012
- ISBN: 9781616087401
- Imprint: Skyhorse Publishing
- Trim Size: 6in x 9in x 6.3in
Description
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.
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