The White Sea League
Russian soldiers drilled in short-center field. Outfielders stood ankle-deep in sand. The catcher's mitt was a gunner's asbestos glove (for handling, hot shells) with extra padding. It took four hours to make a baseball—from part of a rubber heel wound with string, covered with leather cut from gloves. Bats were whittled out of soft Russian pine.
Under such handicaps the White Sea League played ball. In Manhattan last week the story of U.S. sports 100 miles below the Arctic Circle was told by a member of the so-called "Forgotten Convoy"—four...
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