It's impossible to imagine today: Baseball's top players leaving the sport, en masse, to fight a war overseas, then battling rust and injuries sustained in battle in their return to the game. The modern-day equivalent would be… well, unimaginable.
In a new book, author Robert Weintraub revisits the 1946 season, when the term "baseball veteran" had a very different meaning.
It's impossible to imagine today: Baseball's top players leaving the sport, en masse, to fight a war overseas, then battling rust and injuries sustained in battle in their return to the game. The modern-day equivalent would be… well, unimaginable.
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