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
