Baseball: Part 6: The National Pastime

Joe DiMaggio
"1940s Of Rations and Spoils. Feast and famine was never more defined within baseball than in the 1940s. After a few glorious years to start the decade, the major leagues had to play it lean, leaner and leanest through 1945 as America diverted all of its resources to winning World War II. ... World War II stripped many of the game’s greats of up to four years of their prime in baseball. If not for armed conflict, Ted Williams—arguably the best pure hitter the game has ever seen—might have finished his career with 3,200 hits and 650 home runs. ..."
This Great Game
PBS: Part 6: The National Pastime (Video)
This Great Game: 1941 56, .406 and Dem Bums
W - Baseball color line
This Great Game: 1948 The Greatest Show in Cleveland
“Reese & Robbie”

Jackie Robinson
W - Branch Rickey, W - Ted Williams, W - Joe DiMaggio, W - Jackie Robinson, W - Bob Feller, W - Pee Wee Reese, W - Enos Slaughter, W - Minnie Miñoso
W - All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, League of Women Ballplayers
W - All Star Baseball, Ethan Allen, Cadaco-Ellis, and All-Star Baseball, Baseball's Ethan Allen: The Original Spin Doctor, All Star Baseball DISCS
YouTube: Jackie Robinson Breaks the Color Barrier, Joltin Joe DiMaggio!, Will We Ever See Another .400 Hitter?, Batting with Ted Williams from 16mm film, JOE DiMAGGIO TALKS ABOUT HIS 56-GAME HITTING STREAK AND HOW IT ENDED, Red Barber on Jackie Robinson, Jackie Robinson Steals Home, The Jackie Robinson Story (1950) - Full Length Biography 1:16:49
World Series: 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949

Ted Williams