Side note/correction: During the discussion Martin incorrectly stated, that the speech the president made on the loudspeakers during the ball game was not to say baseball would continue. It was to announce a state of national emergency as the world war raged and spread.
-That perfectly encapsulated the combination of dread the nation felt and the relief that baseball offered.
Martin W. Sandler is the National Book Award-winning author of more than sixty books, including 1919: The Year That Changed America, Imprisoned, Lincoln Through the Lens, The Dust Bowl Through the Lens, and Kennedy Through the Lens. Sandler has taught American history and American Studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and at Smith College, and lives in Massachusetts
Craig Sandler is a journalist with 35 years' experience writing about Massachusetts politics. He owns and runs the State House News Service in Boston and the News Service of Florida in Tallahassee. He's trained and edited dozens of young reporters over the years, and authors the annual Massachusetts Political Almanac.
To learn more about today's guests Marty and Craig Sandler please visit:Baseball’s Shining Season: America’s Pastime on the Brink of War, a non-fiction book for young readers at the intersection of baseball and society in America on the eve of World War II. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/baseballs-shining-season-9781547614189/
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