{"635463":{"#nid":"635463","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Here\u0027s What Sports Looked Like During the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/smith_1\u0022\u003EJohnny Smith\u003C\/a\u003E, associate professor in the School of History and Sociology, was mentioned in the article \u0026quot;Here\u0026#39;s What Sports Looked Like During the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic\u0026quot; on May 15, 2020 on \u003Cem\u003EYahoo! Sports\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESmith, along with co-author Randy Roberts of Purdue University, recently published the book \u003Cem\u003EWar Fever: Boston, Baseball and America in the Shadow of the Great War\u003C\/em\u003E,\u0026nbsp;which has become particularly relevant as sports leagues decide how to resume operations in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBut that game helped spread a new strain of the virus and caused a second wave of the influenza in the United States. In August, soldiers and sailors returned home from World War I and docked in Boston. Johnny Smith, a sports history professor at Georgia Tech and co-author of the new book,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.basicbooks.com\/titles\/randy-roberts\/war-fever\/9781541672673\/\u0022 rel=\u0022nofollow noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u0026ldquo;War Fever: Boston, Baseball, and America in the Shadow of the Great War\u003C\/a\u003E, told\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/davidching\/2020\/04\/10\/world-series-win-for-babe-ruth-1918-red-sox-provided-lessons-in-what-not-to-do-during-a-pandemic\/#702747c751ad\u0022 rel=\u0022nofollow noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EForbes:\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;And it\u0026rsquo;s during this period when the Red Sox and Cubs are playing the World Series that these social gatherings \u0026ndash; three games at Fenway Park, a draft registration drive, a Liberty Loan parade \u0026ndash; all of those events and the regular interactions that people had on streetcars and in saloons and so on helped spread the virus,\u0026rdquo; Smith continued. \u0026ldquo;And Boston becomes really the epicenter of the outbreak in September of 1918.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe 1919 MLB season started one week later than it had the year before.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/amphtml\/coronavirus-heres-what-sports-looked-like-during-the-1918-spanish-flu-pandemic-184042838.html\u0022\u003ERead the full article here.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"35266","created_gmt":"2020-05-18 21:33:12","changed_gmt":"2020-05-18 21:46:24","author":"ifrazer3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"domestic study","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/amphtml\/coronavirus-heres-what-sports-looked-like-during-the-1918-spanish-flu-pandemic-184042838.html","dateline":{"date":"2020-05-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-05-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"602698":{"id":"602698","type":"image","title":"Johnny Smith ","body":null,"created":"1519232152","gmt_created":"2018-02-21 16:55:52","changed":"1519232152","gmt_changed":"2018-02-21 16:55:52","alt":"","file":{"fid":"229721","name":"JohnSmithWeb.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/JohnSmithWeb.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/JohnSmithWeb.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":97065,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/JohnSmithWeb.jpg?itok=Qh5ePnxI"}}},"media_ids":["602698"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1288","name":"School of History and Sociology"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1616","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"168508","name":"School of History and Sociology"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}