World War 2
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We take a look at how Baseball and America shared a similar changes throughout World War 2. Image:Rockford Peaches at Pre-Season Training. 1944. National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, https://collection.baseballhall.org/PASTIME/rockford-peaches-pre-season-training-photograph-1944-0. Accessed 2 May 2020. Sources: Tope, Jennifer Day. “Fighting the Second World War in Paradise with a Bat and Glove: Major League Baseball Comes to Hawai’i.” Hawaiian Journal of History, vol. 42, Nov. 2008, pp. 265. and Jenkins, Sally. “League of Her Own: An Indiana Slugger was one of the Ballplayers who “Hit the Dirt in a Skirt” and Changed Americans’ View of Women.” Smithsonian, vol. 49, no. 3, Jun. 2018, pp. 20-22.
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