September 1918 : war, plague, and the World Series
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September 1918 : war, plague, and the World Series
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xv, 287 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary:
One hundred years ago, in September 1918, three things came to Boston: war, plague, and the World Series. This is the unimaginable story of that late summer month, in which a division of Massachusetts militia volunteers led the first unified American fighting force into battle in France, turning the tide of World War I. Meanwhile the world's deadliest pandemic--the Spanish Flu--erupted in Boston and its suburbs, bringing death on a terrifying scale first to military facilities and then to the civilian population. At precisely the same time, in a baseball season cut short on the homefront and amidst the surrounding ravages of death, a young pitcher named Babe Ruth rallied the sport's most dominant team, the Boston Red Sox, to a World Series victory--the last World Series victory the Sox would see for eighty-six years.
Publication Info:
Washtington, CD : Regnery History, an imprint of Regnery Publishing, [2018]
Subject:
Baseball -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- 20th century -- History. |
World War, 1914-1918 -- Massachusetts. |
Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 |
Boston (Mass.) -- 20 the century -- History. |
Ruth, Babe, 1895-1948 |
Ruth, George Herman, 1895-1948 |
Pei-pi-lu-ssu, 1895-1948 |
Ruth, George, 1895-1948 |
Babe (Baseball player), 1895-1948 |
Bambino, 1895-1948 |
Colossus of Clout (Baseball player), 1895-1948 |
Sultan of Swat, 1895-1948 |
べーブルース, 1895-1948 |
Base-ball |
European War, 1914-1918 |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
Great War, 1914-1918 |
World War 1, 1914-1918 |
World War I, 1914-1918 |
World War One, 1914-1918 |
WW I (World War, 1914-1918) |
WWI (World War, 1914-1918) |
Influenza Pandemic, 1918-1919 |
Spanish Flu Epidemic, 1918-1919 |
Spanish Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 |
City of Boston (Mass.) |
Beantown (Mass.) |
بوسطن (Mass.) |
Būsṭun (Mass.) |
Бостон (Mass.) |
Горад Бостан (Mass.) |
Horad Bostan (Mass.) |
Бостан (Mass.) |
Bostan (Mass.) |
Бостън (Mass.) |
Bostŭn (Mass.) |
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Bostono (Mass.) |
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Bosŭt'ŏn (Mass.) |
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Pokekona (Mass.) |
בוסטון (Mass.) |
Bostonia (Mass.) |
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Bostonas (Mass.) |
ボストン (Mass.) |
באסטאן (Mass.) |
Bostons (Mass.) |
波士顿 (Mass.) |
Boshidun (Mass.) |
SAILS ISBN:
9781621576204