| Description |
xv, 287 pages ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
One hundred years ago, in September 1918, three things came to Boston: war, plague, and the World Series. This is the unimaginable story of that late summer month, in which a division of Massachusetts militia volunteers led the first unified American fighting force into battle in France, turning the tide of World War I. Meanwhile the world's deadliest pandemic--the Spanish Flu--erupted in Boston and its suburbs, bringing death on a terrifying scale first to military facilities and then to the civilian population. At precisely the same time, in a baseball season cut short on the homefront and amidst the surrounding ravages of death, a young pitcher named Babe Ruth rallied the sport's most dominant team, the Boston Red Sox, to a World Series victory--the last World Series victory the Sox would see for eighty-six years. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Work or fight -- Over there -- Outbreak -- Lodge -- The Babe -- Spanish flu -- Fenway Park -- The battle of St. Mihiel -- Epidemic -- The homefront -- Don't nag -- State of denial -- Coolidge -- The horror at Devens -- The Yankee division -- The path of progress -- Turnig the corner. |
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World Series (Baseball) -- History -- 20th century.
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Boston (Mass.) -- History -- 20th century.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
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Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History.
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Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History.
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World Series (Baseball) (OCoLC)fst01409714
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Massachusetts -- Boston.
(OCoLC)fst01205012
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World War (1914-1918) (OCoLC)fst01180746
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Influenza Epidemic (1918-1919) (OCoLC)fst01754995
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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History.
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| ISBN |
9781621576204 (hardcover) |
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1621576205 (hardcover) |
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9781621576211 (ebook) |
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