The Nats and the Grays: How Baseball in the Nation's Capital Survived WWII and Changed the Game Forever David E. Hubler Author

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 mi...