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Baseball war veterans

The basis of Eddie Grant's T205 baseball card, this photo, with a fellow player jokingly pointing his fingers at Grant like a gun, is sadly ironic. Eddie Grant later died fighting in France during WWI. Credit: Paul Thompson

The basis of Eddie Grant's T205 baseball card, this photo, with a fellow player jokingly pointing his fingers at Grant like a gun, is sadly ironic. Eddie Grant later died fighting in France during WWI.
Eddie Grant's T205 card
Christy Mathewson contracted TB after being exposed to toxic gas during a drill.
Like Grant, Orville Kilroy was also killed during WW1 amidst the fighting at the Argonne Forest.
Berg was recruited to try to convince Italian physicists to come to America. Read his wartime bio here: http://www.baseballinwartime.com/player_biographies/berg_moe.htm
The cartoon on the back of Ted Willaims' 1954 Topps card mentions his fighter pilot service during the Korean War.
Murcer served in Vietnam as a Marine.
Maddox grew his bushy beard because shaving became too painful due to skin rashes caused by wartime exposure to toxic chemicals.
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