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Post by lamearm1 on Jul 3, 2007 4:02:56 GMT -5
Who was the first MLB player drafted into the armed services?
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Post by tbone421998 on Jul 3, 2007 7:12:33 GMT -5
That would be Hank Greenberg.
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Post by lamearm1 on Jul 3, 2007 15:46:24 GMT -5
Nope.
While Greenberg was the first player to enter the service, he was not the first player drafted....
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Post by tbone421998 on Jul 3, 2007 18:56:36 GMT -5
Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Hugh Mulcahy became the first Major Leaguer drafted into the Armed Forces for WW II. An All-Star in 1940, Mulcahy would pitch less than one-hundred innings after he returned from the war. Over the next two years over one-hundred major leaguers were drafted and two (Elmer Gedeon and Harry O'Neill) were killed in action.
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Post by lamearm1 on Jul 3, 2007 20:06:58 GMT -5
Winner, winner, chicken dinner. ;D
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