What is it about?
On a sunny Fourth of July during World War I, King George V went to a ball game. Along with Queen Mary and other royalty, Winston Churchill, dozens of VIPs, thousands of troops and ordinary Londoners, the monarch cheered an extraordinary "baseball match" between American soldiers and sailors.
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Why is it important?
The historic game staged by the Anglo-American Baseball League helped to solidify the transatlantic alliance that was vital to winning the Great War.
Perspectives
This article led to my second WWI baseball book—Nine Innings for the King: The Day Wartime London Stopped for Baseball, July 4, 1918.
Jim Leeke
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This page is a summary of: Royal Match: The Army-Navy Service Game, July 4, 1918, NINE A Journal of Baseball History and Culture, January 2012, Project Muse,
DOI: 10.1353/nin.2012.0014.
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