German soldiers of 150 Panzer Brigade with captured American armored car courtesy https://warisboring.com/fighting-in-plain-sight-impostors-on-the-battlefield-d1d8bb0ef12f#.my03dtnq1.
For decades, baseball was as American as apple pie. The story goes that in the closing months of the Second World War, German soldiers, flying American flags and wearing American uniforms, were impersonating American soldiers in order to infiltrate enemies. Therefore, American soldiers started asking questions that only other Americans know the answers to. When Brigadier General Bruce Clarke incorrectly stated that the Chicago Cubs were in the American League, he was held at gunpoint for five hours (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Greif#Commandos).
If anyone represented baseball, it was Babe Ruth. "The Great Bambino" played professional baseball for 22 years, from 1914 to 1935. While he started his career with the Boston Red Sox, he spent most of his career playing for the New York Yankees. Ruth was not afraid to take a risk. While he was the home run king, he was also the strike out king. Ruth was not afraid to take a risk; he refused to let anything deter him. In 1924, after running into a wall during a match against the Washington Senators and being knocked unconscious, he insisted on staying in the game. On his next time up to bat, suffering a bruised pelvic bone, he hit a double. Babe Ruth won the World Series three times with the Red Sox and four times with the Yankees.
In 1936, Ruth was one of the first five baseball players inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Babe Ruth has only grown in popularity since his death in 1948. According to one collector, his earliest baseball card now rivals the famous Honus T. Wagner card in value (http://www.deanscards.com/Babe-Ruth-Baseball-Cards).
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