[Editor’s Note: Hey, yeah, it’s July and just now publishing the May 1918 Flashback. These babies can be a bit of a bear, so I may be running behind the rest of the way. Hang with me, I promise there’s some fun stuff to come!]
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The military draft would loom large over the Chicago White Sox, and all of baseball, in 1918. May is when it came to a head, with specific regard to star outfielder Joe Jackson.
If drafted, Jackson said he would enlist as a shipbuilder to avoid seasickness in traveling overseas to Europe.