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Tom Verducci's baseball letters from 1918 pandemic (Part 2) - Sports Illustrated
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Watch Influenza 1918, American Experience, Official Site
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Belmont's Last Pandemic: the 1918 Flu – Belmont Citizens Forum
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Tom Verducci's baseball letters from 1918 pandemic (Part 2) - Sports Illustrated
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The Influenza Epidemic of 1918-1919 – Mansfield Historical Society
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Watch The Great War, American Experience, Official Site
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When Babe Ruth and the Great Influenza Gripped Boston, History
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War Fever by Randy Roberts