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02-12-2012, 04:35 PM
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Great items, everyone! I'm always fascinated by the military/baseball connection over the decades. Wars over the years affected the sport, slicing years off of many great players' careers. Likewise, baseball was a great diversion and pastime for those heroes who served overseas.
I was expecting to see Richard Simon's great letter from Capt. Hank Greenberg in this fine thread, but he must've missed it up to this point (I might have to shoot him a PM or post his letter myself  ).
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02-13-2012, 06:24 AM
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CW did shoot me a PM, so here, once again, is my Hank Greenberg ALS, written during WWII. Read this letter, it is a great item and one of the favorites of my collection.
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02-13-2012, 08:39 AM
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"I am now stationed in China, helping to bring this war to a speedy, successful conclusion, so that when boys like yourself grow up, you can play baseball instead of going to war"
Wow. That is a really great letter and by far the best Hank Greenberg memorabilia I have ever seen on this board.
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02-13-2012, 08:54 AM
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02-13-2012, 09:01 AM
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I posted this in another thread, but it belongs in this one...1953 Elliott News Service Photo poster.
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02-13-2012, 12:41 PM
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This is my favorite thread, please post more. Have you wondered why organized unit sports were more prevalent in WW1 (meaning units in theater sponsored more championship games) while the sports/war connectin for WW2 is more about fundraising on the home front?
KJJAVIC has a beautiful unit football trophy from WW1, I'll see if I can get him to post a picture
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09-16-2023, 04:54 PM
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Being a Greenberg collector I have to agree that is one of the finest letters of Hanks I have seen.....just amazing!
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