[Tax-chick]

Yes, having a successful baseball team - that hasn’t moved or anything - for all that time shows good management.

I’m not a sports fan, but it’s obvious that sports was important for national morale during the war.

[colorado tanker]

Sports remain important. Every championship game I watch in a major sport at some point will cut away to troops watching in some distant base.

It does seem to have been especially important in WWII. It became a movie cliche that to tell a German from an American you would ask who won the last World Series. You wanted to be a sports fan in those days!