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12/7/41 "Pearl Harbor Day" New York Giants vs Brooklyn Dodgers Football Ticket Stub PSA FR 1.5
It was a Sunday afternoon at the Polo Grounds in New York City, and the New York Giants were hosting the rival Brooklyn Dodgers. The Giants and Dodgers had a tremendous baseball rivalry, but this game was football, not baseball - an NFL game on December 7, 1941. In addition to the on-field contest was the celebration of Tuffy Leemans Day. Hall of Famer Leemans was a halfback and fullback with the Giants since 1936. In New York City, WOR radio interrupted the broadcast of the game to announce that the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor. At the Polo Grounds, an announcement was made over the public address system that William J. Donovan (who was the wartime head of the Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner of the CIA) was to call Operator 18 in Washington, D.C. The football game continued, with many of the fans being unaware of the surprise attack. The Giants had already clinched the NFL East Division Championship, and they lost the Dec. 7th game by a 21-7 score as Brooklyn's star back, Pug Manders, scored three touchdowns. On the next day, President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced that the United States was at war. On Dec. 21, the Giants played for the NFL Championship and lost to the West Division Champion, the Chicago Bears. Of course, after Dec. 7th., the nation's attention became focused on World War II, and many of the players in the NFL joined the Armed Services. The ticket stub is for a $2.20 ticket to the upper stand, and the stub measures approx. 2x2.25". The stub has been encapsulated and graded PSA "FR 1.5." The importance of the ticket stub is related to its clearly printed Dec. 7, 1941, date, one that, as President Roosevelt said at the time, "...will live in infamy." The ticket stub becomes a snapshot into the world of America on the cusp of war.
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