Vander Meer wins game 5 of the 1944 Army Navy Central Pacific Area Champion Series
I finally located a ticket to Johnny Vander Meer's 2nd and final win in the 1944 Army Navy Central Pacific Area Championship Series (World Series).
This is a nice compliment to the scorebook that I posted from the 5th game of this game which was played at Furlong Field in Oahu, HI.
"The Navy made it five straight, September 28, by blasting four Army pitchers for ten hits to win, 12 to 2, while Johnny Vander Meer, former Cincinnati ace, yielded only five safeties. It was the second win of the series for the former Red. A crowd of 15,000 saw the Navy clinch the title with a ten-run rally in the fourth inning, when Lien and Molberg were knocked out, Hairston finishing. Ardizoia took over mound duties for the Army in the seventh, when the Bluejackets counted two more home runs."*
* From baseballinwartime.com
Last edited by Scott Garner; 02-29-2016 at 05:20 AM.
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