Baseball Remembers: Bill Nicholson
Major league baseball during World War II simply wasn’t that good, at least not in comparison to what it was both before and after the war. It also wasn’t good compared to the games being played in the Negro Leagues at the same time. I’ve written about this before.
Bad Decisions: Baseball During WWII
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.
What I did in that piece, and many others have done before me, is discount some of the acc…
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