Baseball Kept Playing During The Spanish Flu

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By Berry TramelThe Spanish Flu, which seems to have originated in Kansas but was given its name because the Spanish press was the first to widely report on it, lasted about 15 months and killed 675,000 Americans, most of them in 1918.But the Spanish Flu did not interrupt the major league baseball season.For the Sunday Oklahoman, our man Ryan Aber wrote about the Spanish Flu’s effect on the college football season of 1918.Read more on NewsOK.com

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