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* Thank you to all our veterans

November 11, 2008

There are several well-done books chronicling the contributions made by athletes to the military service of their country that I wanted to mention on this special day: Spartan Seasons: How Baseball Survived the Second World War, by Richard Goldstein (who writes such eloquent obituaries for The New York Times), (McMillan, 1980) They Also Served: Baseball […]

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