 The year is 1918, all right? Everyone hold on to that. It was the only baseball they had, and now it was gone. It was their only ball because in Freeport, Maine of 1918, where boys gathered to play baseball every afternoon between school dismissal and chore time, the town could not afford a playing field, real bases, uniforms, or even a backup baseball, not with fuel shortages, food rationing, and a flu epidemic infecting the nation. The spare change the boys could pull together...