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Title card: "Baseball - America Turns To National Pastime" / med wide shot Washington Senators baseball team lined up on field at Griffith Stadium, crowd in stands in background / President Franklin D Roosevelt shakes hands with Senators manager Bucky Harris, who hands him ball as Harry Hopkins, WPA Chief, and James Farley, Postmaster General, look on / close up Farley / med shot, Roosevelt winds up comically / close up Connie Mack, manager of Philadelphia Athletics, laughs / Roosevelt throws out first ball of 1938 major league season / long shot packed stands / close up Mel Almada, Senators, swings bat, hits, runs to first / close up Taffy Wright, Senators, at bat / Wright hits and runs bases as Almada scores run / cutaway to crowd in stands / high angle wide shot Buddy Myer, Senators, swings at pitch, hits a triple / wide shot crowd in stands, American flags / high angle wide shot Lou Finney, Athletics, hits a single, Frankie Hayes scores run / Wes Farrell, Senators, winds and pitches / Bob Johnson, Athletics, swings and hits, rounds first and second base, two players score runs as Johnson arrives at third / wide shot field with packed stands in background / Almada runs to third, then runs home / high angle long shot crowd in stands / high angle wide shot action on field / close up Buddy Lewis, Senators, at bat / high angle wide Lewis swings, hits, runs; player crosses home