1944 World Series

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The 1944 World Series was the championship series in Major League Baseball for the 1944 season. The 41st edition of the World Series, it was an all-St. Louis affair matching the St. Louis Cardinals and St. Louis Browns at Sportsman's Park. It marked the third time in World Series history in which both teams had the same home field (the others being the 1921 and 1922 Series, both played at the Polo Grounds in New York City). It would be 76 years before another World Series had all of its games played in a single ballpark: the 2020 Series used Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas as a neutral site due to health concerns regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. 1944 saw perhaps the nadir of 20th-century baseball, as the long-moribund St. Louis Browns won their only American League pennant. Some of the players were 4-Fs, rejected by the military for physical defects (one armed Pete Gray wound up playing major league baseball the following year) or limitations that precluded duty. Others divided their...

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