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title: Lost! - in a forest of confusing dope!
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/berryman-lost-in-a-forest-of-confusing-dope-1936/
description: A baseball-season preview cartoon shows two bewildered men among tree trunks labelled with American League team strengths and weaknesses.
section: Collection
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[![Lost! - in a forest of confusing dope!, 1936 US cartoon: A baseball-season preview cartoon shows two bewildered men among](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/berryman-lost-in-a-forest-of-confusing-dope-1936.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/berryman-lost-in-a-forest-of-confusing-dope-1936.jpg)

# Lost! - in a forest of confusing dope!

A baseball-season preview cartoon shows two bewildered men among tree trunks labelled with American League team strengths and weaknesses, with inset sketches of a team owner, a horse and a tiger-riding player. The cartoon presents contradictory pundit predictions as a forest of 'confusing dope'; card-stacking is a weak fit, since the labels are selective claims set against one another.

## Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon

[Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
LOST!
- IN A FOREST OF CONFUSING DOPE !.........
YANKS' PITCHING STAFF
SENATORS' SPEED
DI MAGGIO THREAT
HOW ABOUT GROVE ?
YAWKEY'S "ALL-STARS"
INDIANS UNKNOWN
NATS' SLUGGING ROOKIE
TIGERS PLUS SIMMONS
WHITE SOX MINUS SIMMONS
AMERICAN LEAGUE "EXPERTS"
THEY'VE GOT IT ON PAPER--BUT THE GAME IS PLAYED ON A FIELD!
TIGERS
PENNANT BREW
RUPPERT
PAPA JAKE IS DYING OF THIRST FOR ANOTHER STEIN OF THIS!
BUT THE DARK HORSE MIGHT BE AN INDIAN PONY!
"QUARTER-OF-A-MILLION-JOE" WILL FIND HIS MAP VERY MUCH IN THE RED IF HIS SOX DON'T HOLD UP!
YIP-PEE
CAN MICKEY GALLOP THAT CAVORTING KITTY TO ANOTHER PENNANT ?
JIM BERRYMAN
```

[← It Calls For A Great Shot](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/berryman-it-calls-for-a-great-shot-1936/) [Marble plaque quoting Mussolini's 9 May 1936 empire speech, Catania →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/il-popolo-italiano-ha-creato-limpero-catania-1936/)

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