Word is that some Major League Baseball stars aren’t sold on the idea of playing games in an uncertain environment for something less than half of their contracted salary amount.
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Showing posts with label Spanish Flu. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spanish Flu. Show all posts
Monday, May 18, 2020
Monday, April 20, 2020
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.
Our Game
Our Game
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
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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