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Publication Date: 2014
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Is Baseball Essential?: World War I and the National Pastime
Jarosik, Kris Maldre; Sweeney, Jenny McMillen
Social Education, v78 n2 p57-62 Mar-Apr 2014
In this article, the authors demonstrate how a series of National Archives documents related to professional baseball players and the military draft can launch a lesson on the American home front during World War I, as the 100th anniversary approaches.
Descriptors: United States History, Team Sports, World History, War, Athletes, Documentation, Military Service, Military Personnel, Social Studies
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