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Title: The American Legion Weekly (Volume 1, No. 13 (September 26, 1919))
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: American Legion. National Headquarters
Subjects: American Legion periodicals
Publisher: American Legion
Contributing Library: The American Legion National Headquarters Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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20 THE AMERICAN LEGIO.N WEEKLY
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Air Raid-Fere En Tardenois Painted by George Harding September 26, 1919 S • P EDITED BY The Baseball Field By John McGraw BASEBALL, as a profession, has mostof the advantages and few of thedisadvantages of other lines of en-deavor, and young men who are fitted bynature to earn their livelihood in the na-tional pastime will do well to give theirmost serious consideration to the game. There are, however, two phases to thecase of baseball in its status as a desirableprofession — phases peculiar to it andwhich must be taken into account. Oneis that only a very few are fitted, physi-cally, and by reason of their training, toreach the major leagues. The other isthat there is room for only a couple ofhundred major leaguers at a time, so thatcompetition is strenuous, more strenuous,perhaps, than in any other profession orbusiness. A ball player, regardless of any indis-position, barring serious injury or illness,is expected to give his best at any and alltimes. For seven months in the yea

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