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Nine innings for the King : the day wartime London stopped for baseball, July 4, 1918 /

On a sunny Fourth of July during World War I, King George V went out to a ball game. Along with Queen Mary and other royalty, Winston Churchill, dozens of VIPs, thousands of troops and ordinary Londoners, the monarch cheered an extraordinary ""baseball match"" between American so...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Leeke, Jim, 1949- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2015]
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