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1941 -- The Greatest Year In Sports eBook
by Mike Vaccaro
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1941 -- The Greatest Year In Sports Summary
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1 “Good–bye, dear, I’ll be back in a year.” The draft hovers over everybody, even a slugger named Hammerin’ Hank Hank Greenberg tomorrow dons khaki A very fine soldier he’ll be He’ll worry the enemy wacky By sniping at .333 —Tim Cohane, New York World–Telegram, May 6, 1941 The cops knew early on that they were in for a long night. There were 1,489 of them on duty, most of them in uniform, most of them drawing overtime, all of them startled at the steady stream of humanity pouring into the ten square blocks bracketing Forty–second and Forty–ninth Streets, Fifth and Eighth Avenues. This was Times Square, New York City, and on this thirty–first day of December, 1940, it was suddenly home to over a million temporary citizens, as many human beings as had ever seen fit to gather at one place in the city’s history. It had been a gray Tuesday afternoon, unseasonably warm, and now the day had given way to a clear, starless night, 35 degrees, perfect for revelry, perfect for noisemaking, perfect for stealing sips from pocket–sized flasks, perfect for a grand old party. Perfect for a New Year’s Eve celebration that many sensed they would need to keep with them for a long, long time, for who knew when they would be allowed to be this happy, this carefree, this uninhibited, ever again? “It's bigger, better, and more joyful than ever,” Louis F. Costuma, the New York Police Department’s chief inspector, said as he watched the swelling crowds grow from makeshift police headquarters on FortyR... |
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