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How baseball fell victim to a mistake from World War II

Posted on December 3, 2021February 7, 2022 by Andrew Parks

Back in the height of World War II, the United States faced a big problem. Bomber flight pilots were dropping like fleas. For every 100 sent to fight the war in Europe, less than 45 were returning. They were, in the words of military history Kevin Wilson, “dead men walking.” 

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