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
- Date
- April 8, 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
- Warn or inform
- 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 (NARA), Records of the U.S. Senate, Jim Berryman Political Cartoons (NAID 5730852), 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, 5743105 (NAID 5743105).
Text on the object
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
