1919 Baseball Guide Page - 1918 WWI 351st Field Hospital Team Camp Dodge, Iowa

Description: This rare page came from a 1919 Spalding Baseball Guide and features a team photo of the World War I 351st Field Hospital Baseball Team out of Camp Dodge, Iowa and on the back side a photo of three Great Lakes Naval Station Baseball Teams. The page measures 4" x7".When the United States entered World War I on April 6, 1917, baseball had been known as the “national pastime” for 60 years and was on the cusp of a golden era. Wrigley Stadium was about to celebrate its third birthday. The Red Sox had just begun a sixth season in Fenway Park. Babe Ruth was almost three years into his storied career. And the massive national effort to raise an army and mobilize public support for the war touched nearly every aspect of American society – including the sport of baseball.Major League Baseball players and teams supported the war effort by conducting demonstration trainings, opening stadiums for war-related charity events and participating in Liberty Loan bond drives – Christy Mathewson, pitcher for the New York Giants then manager for the Cincinnati Reds, helped sell more than $100,000 in bonds in a single day.For American forces overseas, baseball was a means of boosting morale. The American military created 77 baseball diamonds in France, and on any given day some 200 games were played throughout the country. “The soldiers like to play ball. … You can’t get enough baseballs to go around here,” the Harrisburg (Pa.) Telegraph reported in August 1918.Condition Description and Listing PicturesI do my best to describe any major flaws or issues with the items I list in my store. I also will add multiple pictures of each item to provide additional condition detail. I encourage you to look at the listing pictures and take advantage of the tool ebay provides to magnify the listing photos. This can be done by hovering your cursor over the picture on display on the listing home page. You can also double-click the picture to enlarge it. Please feel free to ask questions.Multiple Purchases and Combined ShippingI do combine shipping. If you purchase multiple items from my "Buy It Now" inventory, please add each item to your cart on the listing home page and when finished check out and request a total from me.If you win multiple auctions, please don't pay for each item individually. I will send you an invoice with a combined shipping amount for all of your auction wins once they are completed. Ebay Store: Gallery of The Game I am a longtime eBay seller with 100% Positive Feedback on thousands of transactions from several stores. I am dedicating this store to paper ephemera with sports content. The majority of the listings in this store will consist of newspaper sports pages and sports sections. I will also offer other sports related paper ephemera. I have a large inventory and will be listing new items daily. Please make sure you follow me as a favorite seller so you don't miss items you could add to your collection. This will be a seasonal store and will be only available from November-April. Store availability could be reduced or extended.

Price: 12 USD

Location: Saint Marys, Georgia

End Time: 2025-02-05T14:40:25.000Z

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