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Originally Posted by BillyCox3
Funny you chose this year to bring up John Frill, as he was a casualty of the 1918 pandemic.
After baseball, he worked as a wine clerk at a saloon in Rhode Island.
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Yes, when I read this thought the same thing. My wife’s grandmother died in the 1918 flu epidemic. I think there are many players that died in the 1918 epidemic.
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