Jack Dempsey, Draft Dodger

[QueensburyRules]

- - Dempsey supported his mother and father, the reason he started out so poor.

American WW1 casualty rates dwarfed those of France, Britain, Germany, and Russia.

[Willow The Wisp]

- - Dempsey supported his mother and father, the reason he started out so poor.

American WW1 casualty rates dwarfed those of France, Britain, Germany, and Russia.

No issues with those truths.
the war afterall, Over There.

[QueensburyRules]

No issues with those truths.
the war afterall, Over There.

- - Each MLB baseball team were it's own militia who drilled on field before games where deferred or not.

Ty Cobb, Christy Matthewson, George Sisler worked a mustard gas facility in France where Christy got gassed in an accident with the other's almost gassed. That 2 .400 HOF hitters and one of the iconic HOF pitchers ever who near died and was never the same in his return.

Nastiness in humanity has no end as modern atrocities prove.

[Willie Pep 229]

- - Each MLB baseball team were it's own militia who drilled on field before games where deferred or not.

Ty Cobb, Christy Matthewson, George Sisler worked a mustard gas facility in France where Christy got gassed in an accident with the other's almost gassed. That 2 .400 HOF hitters and one of the iconic HOF pitchers ever who near died and was never the same in his return.

Nastiness in humanity has no end as modern atrocities prove.

Add in 'Ol Pete (Grover Cleveland Alexander).

An attempted bogus marriage that didn't seem to work, then mustered gassed in France, then wounded (partial lost of hearing), then epilepsy episodes, and then PTSD (shell shock).

Crawled inside a bottle but still had a HOF career.

1911-1930

From Wikipedia:

"Alexander spent most of the 1918 season in France as a sergeant with the 342nd Field Artillery Regiment, 89th Division. While he was serving in France, he was exposed to German mustard gas and a shell exploded near him, causing partial hearing loss and triggering the onset of epilepsy. Alexander returned to the United States in April 1919.

Following his return from the war, Alexander suffered from shell shock and was plagued with epileptic seizures, which people often misinterpreted as a sign of drunkenness; this only exacerbated his drinking problem."

• World Series champion (1926)
• 3× Triple Crown (1915, 1916, 1920)
• 6× NL wins leader (1911, 1914–1917, 1920)
• 4× NL ERA leader (1915, 1916, 1919, 1920)
• 6× NL strikeout leader (1912, 1914–1917, 1920)

From Me:

His "save" when closing down the Yankees for the last three innings of Game 7 of the 1926 World Series was voted by Sports Writers, The 5th Most Dramatic Moment in Sport (first half of the 20th Century).



P.S. Dempsey-Firpo was #1

[QueensburyRules]

Add in 'Ol Pete (Grover Cleveland Alexander).

An attempted bogus marriage that didn't seem to work, then mustered gassed in France, then wounded (partial lost of hearing), then epilepsy episodes, and then PTSD (shell shock).

Crawled inside a bottle but still had a HOF career.

1911-1930

From Wikipedia:

"Alexander spent most of the 1918 season in France as a sergeant with the 342nd Field Artillery Regiment, 89th Division. While he was serving in France, he was exposed to German mustard gas and a shell exploded near him, causing partial hearing loss and triggering the onset of epilepsy. Alexander returned to the United States in April 1919.

Following his return from the war, Alexander suffered from shell shock and was plagued with epileptic seizures, which people often misinterpreted as a sign of drunkenness; this only exacerbated his drinking problem."

• World Series champion (1926)
• 3× Triple Crown (1915, 1916, 1920)
• 6× NL wins leader (1911, 1914–1917, 1920)
• 4× NL ERA leader (1915, 1916, 1919, 1920)
• 6× NL strikeout leader (1912, 1914–1917, 1920)

From Me:

His "save" when closing down the Yankees for the last three innings of Game 7 of the 1926 World Series was voted by Sports Writers, The 5th Most Dramatic Moment in Sport (first half of the 20th Century).



P.S. Dempsey-Firpo was #1

- - Deadball produced some of the grittiest of the greats.

There was another great in that team of Cobb, Sissler, and Matthews, Branch Rickey who was still young then maybe. I'll check to make sure.

Ted Williams lost 5 years in 3 separate deployments in WW2 and Korea. There's a famous pic of him simulating combat with his hands while John Glenn is drinking coffee.

[Slugfester]

Good for him





― Smedley D. Butler, War is a Racket

All Wars are boyish--

Mellville

[QueensburyRules]

- - Deadball produced some of the grittiest of the greats.

There was another great in that team of Cobb, Sissler, and Matthews, Branch Rickey who was still young then maybe. I'll check to make sure.

Ted Williams lost 5 years in 3 separate deployments in WW2 and Korea. There's a famous pic of him simulating combat with his hands while John Glenn is drinking coffee.

- - Yeah, Rickey was part of that team.

[Ivich]

- - Dempsey supported his mother and father, the reason he started out so poor.

American WW1 casualty rates dwarfed those of France, Britain, Germany, and Russia.

At nearly 65% the Australian casualty rate was the highest of the war.
The US had the lowest fatality rate of any participant.

First World War: fatalities per country 1914-1918 | Statista

www.britannica.com › event › World-War-IWorld War I - Casualties, Armistice, Legacy | Britannica


The heaviest loss of life for a single day occurred on July 1, 1916, during the Battle of the Somme, when the British Army suffered 57,470 casualties.

Russia	12,000,000	1,700,000	4,950,000
British Empire	8,904,467	908,371	2,090,212
France	8,410,000	1,357,800	4,266,000
Italy	5,615,000	650,000	947,000

[Slugfester]

I read the web page. From the Department of Defense (DOD) no less.

You are a trusting man. I'll go ahead and guarantee that.

[kara]

At nearly 65% the Australian casualty rate was the highest of the war.
The US had the lowest fatality rate of any participant.

First World War: fatalities per country 1914-1918 | Statista

www.britannica.com › event › World-War-IWorld War I - Casualties, Armistice, Legacy | Britannica


The heaviest loss of life for a single day occurred on July 1, 1916, during the Battle of the Somme, when the British Army suffered 57,470 casualties.

Russia	12,000,000	1,700,000	4,950,000
British Empire	8,904,467	908,371	2,090,212
France	8,410,000	1,357,800	4,266,000
Italy	5,615,000	650,000	947,000

I was going to say that Russia was pretty high