ANALYSIS/OPINION
There was a time when America’s presidents didn’t communicate 140 characters at a time.
There was a time when America’s presidents wrote letters with weight and purpose, recording history with their words.
Seventy-five years ago Sunday — Jan. 15, 1942 — Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote a letter to then-baseball commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis that perhaps cemented baseball’s place in history as the national pastime.
Roosevelt declared that the game was an important part of American life, and, despite the declaration of war that happened five weeks earlier after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, the president wanted major league baseball to continue.