Babe Ruth avait lancé pendant les Séries mondiales! Retour en arrière...
"The Cubs' return to Fenway to face the Red Sox in Interleague Play this weekend has us thinking very much in this vein of then vs. now. For it's not every day that a team visits a ballpark it last inhabited 93 years ago. Indeed, this is Interleague intrigue at its historical height.
Imagine, if you will, a Fenway setting without upper-deck seats, without lights and certainly without luxury boxes or seating atop the 37-foot Green Monster in left. Imagine the Red Sox decked out in wool threads of all white, with no logo on their caps, no word on their chests and no number on their backs. Imagine the Cubs in a grayish uniform featuring navy blue pinstripes and an obscure logo in which the "C" wraps around the letters "UBS," topped off with a pinstriped gray cap with a blue brim. And, yes, imagine two starting lineups without a single black player or anybody born outside the United States.
That's the Fenway of 1918, the Fenway where Red Sox right-hander Carl Mays would twirl nine brilliant innings and Cubs right fielder Max Flack would make a costly, two-run error to give Boston a 2-1 win in the decisive Game 6 of the World Series.
On that day -- Sept. 11, 1918 -- baseball was an afterthought, at best. The United States had been embroiled in what was called the Great War for almost a year and a half. It was a conflict president Woodrow Wilson had wanted no part of, but the Germans' sinking of U.S. ships and the leaked Zimmerman telegram changed his and the country's tune.
The war effort waged so long that the U.S. began to endure both economic and emotional stagnation. It changed the way Americans viewed the world, inspiring, for many, a push for peace. And the fight for democracy abroad led to increased attention on democracy at home, as the women's suffrage movement finally and rightfully gained momentum.
No one knew how long the war would linger. Rations were applied and money was spent carefully.
When it comes to spending, consider this: The average American household earned $1,518 in 1918. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, that would be the equivalent of $21,644 exactly 80 years later, and yet the average American household hauled in $52,029 in 2008. So Americans, by and large, had to make do with less. Gas might have only been 25 cents a gallon, but, adjusted for inflation, that equates to nearly $4 a gallon in today's money."
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