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b'The Infinite Inning is not only about baseball but a state of mind. Steven Goldman, rotating cohosts Jesse Spector, Cliff Corcoran, and David Roth, and occasional guests discuss the game\\u2019s present, past, and future with forays outside the foul lines to the culture at large. Expect stats, anecdotes, digressions, explorations of writing and fandom, and more Casey Stengel quotations than you thought possible. Along the way, they\\u2019ll try to solve the puzzle that is the Infinite Inning: How do you find the joy in life when you can\\u2019t get anybody out?

This week, Steve is joined by Jim Leeke, author of From the Dugout to the Trenches: Baseball During the Great War, plus the usual preamble involving baseball and current events. Plus: An old song that sounds ominous!

Warning: There is one off-color word about 15 minutes into the show.

No one was replaced by Jackie Robinson*A few terrible, no good, very typical days*Jim Leeke: Baseball and \\u201cPreparedness\\u201d in 1917*The National League says no*Patriotism in a 1917 context*How World War II swamped the memory of World War I*Was the drilling of ballplayers na\\xefve?*Clark Griffith\\u2019s war effort*Even bad people aren\\u2019t bad all the time*Why was the American League so eager to quit?*The \\u201cWork or Fight\\u201d order*Ban Johnson\\u2019s gaffe*The \\u201cWork or Fight Order\\u201d vs. the World War II \\u201cGreen Light Letter\\u201d*The value of entertainment in wartime*The Steel/Steal League and Shoeless Joe Jackson*The mystery of Babe Ruth\\u2019s wartime activities*Hank Gowdy, American*An Eddie Grant Memorial*Christy Mathewson and Pete Alexander in the war*The unprecedented brutality of the First World War*The Angl0-American Baseball Project*Baseball in the land of total war*Goodbyes.'