3 | 15 Year Old Professional Baseball Players

Published: May 14, 2019, 7 a.m.

World War II touched everything - even baseball. When shiploads of major league players went off to war, President Franklin Roosevelt thought about stopping professional baseball until the war ended. But then he decided the game meant too much to too many people to take it away. The games went on, and major league baseball scouts looked in unusual places for players. Including junior high school. During this time two 15-year-old kids made their debut as professional baseball players.