American Valor Quarterly Issue 11 - Fall 2014 | Page 28

MONTE IRVIN (CENTER) IS JOINED BY FELLOW MLB VETERANS OF WORLD WAR II AT NATIONALS PARK IN
WASHINGTON, DC IN 2008, WHERE THEY MET WITH YOUNG SERVICE MEMBERS WOUNDED WHILE SERVING
ABROAD IN AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ.

with the 1946 Eagles win—the Eagles
win was monumental because they had
never won. There were smaller crowds
of c