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Bad Decisions: Baseball During WWII

Bad Decisions: Baseball During WWII

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Paul White
Oct 11, 2023
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If you’re a fan of “A League of Their Own,” you know that the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League began during World War II as an alternative to men’s baseball, because there was some fear that the major and minor leagues would be shut down and all of the players sent to the military or to work in critical war industries.

That’s not entirely…

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