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Sam Barnes

Eddie Grant, seen here in a New York Giants uniform, was the first, and most prominent, former Major League ballplayer to be killed in action during the war. Grant had already retired from baseball and was working as a lawyer when war was declared. Courtesy Library of Congress
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October 1918: A bad month for baseball

By Samuel O. Barnes

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