Baseball Manager Leo Durocher Leading the 1945 Brooklyn Dodgers Spring Training

During World War II, soldiers viewed highlight clips like "Dem Bums Warm Up," showing 1945 Brooklyn Dodgers team manager Leo Durocher leading infield practice at baseball Spring Training, before feature films in military motion picture theaters. When Durocher barked out "You haven't got a bucket of paint at third base, you got to get the paintbrush out of your hand," and a narrator coolly commented on Leo's chatter, the sights and sounds of home were within reach for the troops.

This film clip is featured in "Baseball: The National Pastime in the National Archives," an eBook available for iPad through iTunes or at https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/baseball-national-pastime/id621586827?ls=1 and for other other mobile devices and eReaders at http://www.archives.gov/publications/ebooks

The clip is Reel 1, Part 1 of "Army-Navy Screen Magazine, Number 2: Navy Edition," from the series Navy Motion Picture Film Productions in the General Records of the Department of the Navy. (National Archives Identifier 36165) http://arcweb.archives.gov/arc/action/ExternalIdSearch?id=36165

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