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The Chicago White Sox are pictured on April 12, 1918, before an exhibition game against a US Army team at Camp Funston, outside of Junction City, Kansas. Just weeks ear- lier, the first major outbreak of a global influenza pandemic killed 38 soldiers at the base. An estimated 50 million people around the world died from the flu by the time the pandemic subsided in 1920. (BlackBetsy.com)

April 12, 1918: Red Faber, White Sox win exhibition game in epicenter of influenza pandemic

April 15, 1918: Truck Hannah debuts against Walter Johnson on Opening Day

April 16, 1918: Reds’ Pete Schneider tosses one-hitter on Opening Day

May 5, 1918: Breaking the Sabbath: Navy Yard stars win exhibition at Braves Field

May 6, 1918: Brooklyn’s Dan Griner loses no-hitter with two outs in the ninth

May 6, 1918: Boston’s Babe Ruth makes his first start as a position player

May 7, 1918: Boston Braves blow out Brooklyn, 16-0

May 8, 1918: The wildest, wobbliest, weirdest windup as Reds score nine in 9th

May 15, 1918: Walter Johnson and Lefty Williams spar for 18 innings

May 19, 1918: Senators’ first Sunday game draws record crowd in Washington

May 20, 1918: Four late-game comebacks result in dizzying victory for A’s

June 13, 1918: Cardinals rookie Cliff Heathcote hits for cycle in 19-inning tie game

July 2, 1918: Burleigh Grimes blanks Braves amid pressure to ‘work or fight’

July 17, 1918: Cubs’ Lefty Tyler outduels Phillies’ Watson in 21-inning marathon

Bullet Joe Bush (Trading Card DB)

July 22, 1918: Bullet Joe Bush throws his fifth 1-0 shutout of season for surging Red Sox

July 25, 1918: Senators’ Walter Johnson and Browns’ Allen Sothoron battle for 15 innings

August 1, 1918: Boston Braves’ Art Nehf blanks Pirates for 20 innings, loses shutout and game in 21st

August 4, 1918: Ty Cobb’s single in 18th inning defeats Walter Johnson

Donnie Bush (Library of Congress)

August 16, 1918: Tigers rally for six in 9th, beat Walter Johnson and Senators in 16 innings

August 24, 1918: Cubs clinch fifth National League pennant in 13 years with doubleheader sweep

September 2, 1918: Braves, Giants finish a season cut short by war

September 5, 1918: Babe Ruth tosses shutout in Game 1 as patriotism prevails in World Series opener

September 6, 1918: Lefty Tyler’s pitching, batting tie World Series at 1-1

Carl Mays (NATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME LIBRARY)

September 7, 1918: Boston’s Carl Mays outduels Cubs’ Hippo Vaughn in Game 3

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