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FRIEND AL: Well Al I guess I all ready told you about them getting up
a newspaper in our regt. and Joe Pierson asked me would I write them
up something for it and I told him no I wouldn't but it seems like he
overheard me and thought I said I would so any way he was expecting
something from me so last night I wrote them up something and I don't know
if the paper will ever get printed or not so I will coppy down a part of
what I wrote to give you a idear of what I wrote. He wanted I should write
them up something about the stragety of baseball and where it was like the
stragety in the war because one night last month I give them a little talk
at one of their entertainments about how the man that used their brains in
baseball was the one that win just like in the army but I guess I all ready
told you about me giveing them that little talk and afterwards I got a
skinfull of the old grape and I thought sure they would have me up in front
of the old court marshall but they never knowed the difference on acct. of
the Way I can handle it and you take the most of the boys and if they see
a cork they want to kiss the Colonel. Well any way here is the article I
wrote up and I called it War and Baseball 2 games where brains wins.
"The gen. public that go out to the baseball park and set through the games
probably think they see everything that is going on on the field but they's
a lot of stuff that goes on on the baseball field that the gen.
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