Daily_News_Tue__May_1__1945_Eddie Waitkus Philippines

Dec 21

Published at × in A Combat and Baseball Story Uncovered: Discovery From a Lone Name on a Photo

A clipping from the May 1, 1945 New York Daily News, Shows Eddie Waitkus dressed in a t-shirt, fatigue trousers and combat boots at bat in the battered Rizal Stadium in Manila. Notes the pockmark-damage in the concrete along the first base grandstand face.

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