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January 15, 1942.
My dear Judge:-
Thank you for yours of January fourteenth. As
you will, of course, realise the final decision about the
baseball season must rest with you and the Baseball Club
owners -- so what I am going to say is solely a personal
and not an official point of view.
I honestly feel that it would be best for the
x170
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.
XPP7468
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. And, incidentally,
I hope that night games can be extended because it gives
an opportunity to the day shift to see a game occasionally.
As to the players themselves, I know you agree
with me that individual players who are of active military
or naval age should go, without question, into the services.
Even if the actual quality of the teams is lowered by the
greater use of older players, this will not dampen the
popularity of the sport. Of course, if any individual
has some particular aptitude in a trade or profession,
he ought to serve the Government. That, however, is a
matter which I know you can handle with complete justice.
Here is another way of looking at it -- if
300 teams use 5,000 or 6,000 players, these players are
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a definite recreational asset to at least 20,000,000
of their fellow citizens -- and that in my judgment is
thoroughly worthwhile.
With every best wish,
Very sincerely yours,
Hon. Kenesaw M. Landis,
233 North Michigan Avenue,
Chicago,
Illinois.
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