"Baseball Goes to War – How Doughboys Took America’s" Topic

….Pastime to the front lines in WWI

"Famed American Sportswriter, Jimmy Cannon, wrote: "It is part of our national history that all boys dream of being Babe Ruth before they are anyone else."

For the American men serving in World War One, Ruth was already on his way to becoming an icon. But most of them had grown up with other baseball players as their heroes. Ty Cobb, Honus Wagner, Walter Johnson, "Home Run" Baker, and others filled their daydreams with baseball exploits…."
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Amicalement
Armand

Actually, Canadian troops had introduced baseball to Britain and the Western Front long before the Americans joined the war.

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Thanks!.

Amicalement
Armand

Sometimes folks forget that Canada is a part of North America…

Like the fact the guy who we credit with inventing "basketball"… was a Canadian…

But that's okay. I forgot Nova Scotia was a "furrin" country when I was growing up in New England. We had more in common with people in Halifax than in Harrisburg…. but I digress.

Eric

And just for the record… Ted Williams (USMC) was better than Babe Ruth as a hitter…

A .410 batting average…

But I'm also an obnoxious Red Sox Fan… among other things.

Eric

(smile)

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Armand

Actually, Canadian troops had introduced baseball to Britain and the Western Front long before the Americans joined the war.

Then it is coming full circle

"A 1744 book in England by children's publisher John Newbery called A Little Pretty Pocket-Book includes a woodcut of a game similar to three-base stoolball or rounders and a rhyme entitled "Base-Ball". This is the first known instance of the word baseball in print."

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Interesting… thanks!.

Amicalement
Armand