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Don’t Let Hitler (or the Depression) Kill Baseball: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the National Pastime, 1932-1945
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ABSTRACT
Franklin D. Roosevelt refused to let either Hitler or the Depression kill baseball and endanger American values of teamwork, determination, innocence, success, and democracy embedded within the mythology of the sport. In many ways, the affluent society of post-World War II, which has exposed many of the gaps between American promise and reality, has proven more destructive of baseball than the Depression and World War II. Today, it is difficult to envision baseball, or many other American institutions for that matter, as a symbol around which an articulate and intuitive leader could rally the American people in times of crisis such as was the case for Roosevelt during the Great Depression and World War II. Roosevelt's position on the continuation of major league baseball agreed with most Americans, especially those young men in the armed services.