Podcasts Sports Baseball and American History: One in the Same World War 2

World War 2

Published: May 5, 2020, 4:18 a.m.

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We take a look at how Baseball and America shared a similar changes throughout World War 2.  Image:Rockford Peaches at Pre-Season Training. 1944. National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, https://collection.baseballhall.org/PASTIME/rockford-peaches-pre-season-training-photograph-1944-0. Accessed 2 May 2020.  Sources: Tope, Jennifer Day. \\u201cFighting the Second World War in Paradise with a Bat and Glove: Major League Baseball Comes to Hawai\\u2019i.\\u201d Hawaiian Journal of History, vol. 42, Nov. 2008, pp. 265.  and Jenkins, Sally. \\u201cLeague of Her Own: An Indiana Slugger was one of the Ballplayers who \\u201cHit the Dirt in a Skirt\\u201d and Changed Americans\\u2019 View of Women.\\u201d Smithsonian, vol. 49, no. 3, Jun. 2018, pp. 20-22.

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