During the war years (1942-1945), the fans of the Boston Braves…
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With D-Day still five weeks in the future, baseball was starting…
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The second-place St. Louis Browns traveled to Beantown for a…
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On the afternoon of June 10, 1944, just 3,510 individuals came…
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“Ray Dandridge was fantastic. ... Once you saw him, you never…
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“The record books recognize only those no-hitters that go nine…
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Twenty days after the D-Day invasion of Normandy, a special baseball…
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The St. Louis Cardinals entered July 1944 with an eight-game…
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Less than a week before the 1944 midsummer classic, Boston’s…
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The second night game ever played at Wrigley Field was a Red…
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After a successful inaugural season in 1943, the All-American…
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Leo Durocher, manager of the eighth-place Brooklyn Dodgers,…
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In the summer of 1944, the third season of wartime baseball,…
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The 1944 Brooklyn Dodgers were struggling. They played .167…
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“But coming down through that would heighten my sense because…
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The late-season doubleheader between the St. Louis Cardinals…
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Chet Laabs of the St. Louis Browns is carried off the field…
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Ohio Governor and Republican candidate for vice president John…
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“They looked more like a softball team than a baseball team,…
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While the nation was still heavily engaged in World War II, two…
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