In 1942, major league baseball turned a few of New York’s green cathedrals into makeshift junk yards.

Highlights

- FDR nationalizes the National Game

- What scrap metal meant to the war effort

- Dispatches from the Junk Drawer War

- The Dodgers pitch in to help New York meet its quota

- A scramble at the Ebbets Field “scrap gate”

- Next time: Metal mania moves to Manhattan

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