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Play Ball!: Doughboys and Baseball During the Great War (Hardcover)
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Play Ball!: Doughboys and Baseball During the Great War (Hardcover)
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Baseball is the most American game. No other sporting contest so
closely reflects the American psyche and culture. Its uniqueness
comes from the fact that part of the game is clearly defined and
unchanged since play first began, while another part of the game
fluctuates and changes constantly. And if baseball is the truest
American game, the Doughboys of the Great War were its most loyal
proponents. By 1918, there were over four million of them: two
million in France fighting in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive and
another two million in stateside training camps awaiting their turn
to cross the Atlantic to the Western Front. Playing wherever they
could find enough room to throw a ball, they brought the game with
them into the front lines and then into the occupation of Germany.
Sharing their military service, in combat and on the baseball
diamond, were a number of famous professional ballplayers,
managers, lawyers, politicians, and even an umpire.
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