How Hypnotist Swung & Missed In Stint With Browns

With or without a hypnotist, the 1950 Browns played like they were in a trance.

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Baseball In Japan During The 1918 Spanish Flu Epidemic

As Major League Baseball has delayed the opening of the 2020 season due to the Covid-19 Pandemic, baseball’s first interruption since the 1994 strike, so has the Nippon Professional Baseball league, delaying its season for the first time since the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. Below is a look at baseball in Japan over 100 years ago, during another deadly virus outbreak.

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One Casualty Of 1918 Pandemic Was Catcher, Army Private Harry 'Husky' Glenn

In his hometown newspaper on Sept. 5, 1918, near the news of “Shoeless” Joe Jackson injuring his foot while playing in the Delaware River Shipbuilding League and a note about a Cubs owner and “hot dog king of the Federal League” losing a “fortune” close to $200,000, former Cardinals catcher Harry Glenn had the biggest headline.

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Harry Glenn Died Serving In World War I

Harry Glenn was 28 and deep into a professional baseball career that included a stint with the Cardinals when he enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces during World War I. Soon after being assigned to the Aviation Mechanic Training School in St. Paul, Minn., Glenn contracted pneumonia and died, a month before the war ended.

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