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Americans Teach British Baseball

Improvement Era, vol. 21, no. 11, September 1918, p. 970

Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations

AMERICANS TEACH BRITISH BASEBALL Not even the roar of the big guns can stop the American soldiers from demonstrating the fine points of the grand old game of baseball. This British official photograph shows some of our troops acquainting their British comrades with the sport, while the shells shriek over the British western front. The Sammy in the center is showing them the approved way of handling a bat. Note the perplexed position of the Tommy on the left. America's national game is fast becoming an international one, it having been wildly acclaimed and adopted by both London and Paris where many games have already been played to the great satisfaction of the popu- laces.