There's a great new site I found - Letters of Note. It's just that, letters that are significant in some way to the cultural fabric of who we are. Recently they posted a letter from Kenesaw Landis - the Commissioner of Baseball - to President Roosevelt asking if they should cancel the baseball season after Pearl Harbor and the beginnings of the U.S. involvement in WWII.
Roosevelt's reply, in part, said...
I honestly feel that it would be best for the country to keep baseball going. There will be fewer people unemployed and everybody will work longer hours and harder than ever before.
And that means that they ought to have a chance for recreation and for taking their minds off their work even more than before.
Baseball provides a recreation which does not last over two hours or two hours and a half and which can be got for very little cost.
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