The Original Curse (40 page)

Pitt, Brad,
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Plank, Eddie,
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Porter, Claude,
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Prager, Robert,
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Prendergast, Mike,
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Rawlings, Johnny,
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Redmon, Harry,
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Regan, Mike,
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Reichow, Oscar,
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Rickey, Branch,
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Ring, Jimmy,
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Ritter, Lawrence,
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Robinson, Hank,
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Rodriguez, Alex,
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Roosevelt, Teddy,
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Rosenwald, Julius,
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Rothstein, Arnold,
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Roush, Edd,
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Ruether, Dutch,
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Ruppert, Jake,
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Ruth, Babe,
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Ruth, George,
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Ryan, Frank,
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Sanborn, I. E.,
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Schalk, Ray,
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Schang, Wally,
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Schiller, Friedrich von,
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Schneider, Pete,
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Schupp, Ferdie,
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Scott, Everett,
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Sedition Act,
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Selective Service Act,
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Selig, Bud,
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Seys, John O.,
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Shannon, Paul,
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Shean, Dave,
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Shore, Ernie,
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Sianis, William,
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Spanish flu epidemic of 1918,
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–3

Speaker, Tris,
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Spencer, Tubby,
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Stahl, Jake,
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Stallings, George,
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Stanage, Oscar,
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Stansbury, Jack,
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Stokes, Rose Pastor,
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Stout, Glenn,
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Strunk, Amos,
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Sullivan, Sport,
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Sunday, Billy,
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Taft, Charles,
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Tardieu, André,
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Tener, John,
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Tennes, Mont,
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Tesreau, Jeff,
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Texel
, the,
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Thomas, Fred,
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Thompson, Frog,
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Thompson, William Hale,
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Thormahlen, Hank,
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Tinker, Joe,
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Toney, Fred,
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Treaty of Brest-Litovsk,
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Trotsky, Leon,
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Truesdale, Frank,
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Turner, George Kibbe,
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Tyler, Lefty,
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Vaughn, Hippo,
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Veeck, Bill,
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Veeck, William, Sr.,
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Wagner, Heinie,
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Walker, Jimmy,
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Weaver, Buck,
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Weaver, Harry,
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Weeghman, Bessie,
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Weeghman, Charley,
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Weeghman, Dorothy,
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Wheat, Zack,
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Wheeler, William,
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Whiteman, George,
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Whitman, Burt,
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Wickland, Al,
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Williams, Charley,
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Williams, Claude,
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Williams, Cy,
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Williams, Lefty,
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Wilson, Woodrow,
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Wobblies, trial of the,
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Wood, Joe,
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World War I

attendance at games and,
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casualties,
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confusion in Chicago during,
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exemption from the draft,
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fear of German invasion,
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first draft registration
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Grover Cleveland Alexander’s story,
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money and,
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pregame military demonstrations,
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secretary of war,
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strategy,
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victory,
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work-or-fight order,
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Wortman, Chuck,
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Wrigley, William,
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Wyckoff, Weldon,
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Young, Cy,
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Youngs, Ross,
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Zeider, Rollie,
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Zimmerman, Heinie,
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Zork, Carl,
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