This Never Happened

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(56 52 15 1)>It seems so simple so pure. But behind the green grass and iconic heroes professional baseball has always been driven by greed ambition a thirst for fame a lust for power and a ceaseless conflict of motives that go far beyond winning and losing. Peel back the veneer with The Deadball Files.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(56 52 15 1)>This critically acclaimed series features present-day mysteries and legal dramas grounded in events and personalities from the early days of baseball.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(56 52 15 1)>The series opens with a genuine mystery. History tells us that baseball legends Christy Mathewson and Ty Cobb volunteered as Captains in the World War I Chemical Warfare Service (CWS). After the 1918 baseball season ended both shipped out for France where they were exposed to poison gas during a training exercise. Mathewson got the worst of it and died in 1925 of tuberculosis brought on by his exposure.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(56 52 15 1)>History has it wrong.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(56 52 15 1)>According to recently discovered military records Cobb Mathewson and other future Hall of Famers were together in June 1918 training on chemical weapons as part of a show unit - a propaganda unit designed to attract young men into the CWS. But the unit disbanded early and news accounts even in the local press make no mention of it. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(56 52 15 1)>A propaganda unit but no propaganda? A recruiting tool but no recruiting?</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(56 52 15 1)>Something happened that was not in the script something that has been the subject of an elaborate coverup for more than a century. But what?</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(56 52 15 1)>Discover the history as you unravel the mystery.</span></p>