It Calls For A Great Shot
A golfer labelled 'Griff' in cap and plus-fours stands in a sand bunker labelled 'Catching Weakness' beside a ball labelled 'Senators', with the green marked by a 'Pennant' flag and rival teams Red Sox, Indians, Tigers and Yanks. The cartoon uses a golf metaphor for a baseball team's prospects; the folksy dialect speech is its only rhetorical device.
Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon
- Date
- March 24, 1936
- Period
- Interwar
- Made by
- Washington Evening Star (cartoonist Jim Berryman)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Cartoon
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Theme
- Media and information
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives, Records of the U.S. Senate, Jim Berryman Political Cartoons, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
Jim Berryman, Washington Evening Star. National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the U.S. Senate, 5743104 (NAID 5743104).
Text on the object
PENNANT INDIANS RED SOX YANKS TIGERS UNCERTAIN PITCHING -AS IF HAVIN' TH' GREEN WELL-TRAPPED ISN'T BAD ENOUGH--LOOKA' TH' LIE I GOT T'SHOOT FROM! GRIFF SENATORS CATCHING WEAKNESS JIM BERRYMAN ORLANDO, FLA...
