The Nats and the Grays: How Baseball in the Nation s Capital Survived WWII and Changed the Game Forever (Hardcover)

On a chilly Sunday December 7 1941 major league baseball s owners gathered in Chicago for their annual winter meetings just two months after one of baseball s greatest seasons. For the owners the attack on Pearl Harbor that morning was also an attack on baseball. They feared a complete shutdown of the coming 1942 season and worried about players they might l...