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
Further Reading and Watching
Roosevelt’s December 8 speech to Congress:
A film on wartime recycling narrated by the head of the War Production Board:
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Original Research and Writing: Paul Jackson
Production and Music: Ted Walker
Design: Ketaki Kulkarni
