Baseball in World War I

Early End to Season

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  • Mid-July: Secretary of War decrees baseball a non-essential
        activity in time of war-- season must come to immediate end
  • Baseball works out compromise: let us play until Labor Day
        and players will perform military drills before each game!
  • Teams hold drives to send baseball gear and equipment
        to military camps: bats, balls, bases and gloves

    • In addition to sending equipment, baseball sent so many copies of
    The Sporting News to men in uniform    

  • that it rescued the publication from bankruptcy!
           
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