Baseball during world war II: The reaction and encouragement of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and others.

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I honestly feel that it would be best for the country to keep baseball going.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt

THE ROLE OF PRESIDENT FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT

In the famous "green light letter," a one-page letter dated January 15, 1942, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt informed baseball commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis, "I honestly feel that it would be best for the country to keep baseball going." (1) Roosevelt's reply was to an entreaty from Landis to Roosevelt the previous day. (2)

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