The Second World War was in the bottom of the ninth inning in
Germany and Japan, but back at home the bases were loaded with
baseball players, many of them new to the big leagues. While the
game's stars traded their stockings and gloves for khaki and
rifles, America's leaders believed baseball would boost morale at
home.
Teams filled out their rosters with retired stars such as
Jimmie Foxx and Babe Herman; with players like Pete Gray and Dick
Sipek, whose disabilities had kept them out of the majors; and with
teenagers like 17-year-olds Putsy Caballero and Tommy Brown. But
while the level of major league talent had reached its nadir,
war-weary fans packed the ballparks, eagerly following pennant
races as intense as any that preceded the war.
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