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> why would they be less knowledgeable about baseball than any other American who happened to have little interest in baseball?

Because their knowledge of teams and scores and wins and players would be 4 years out of date.



Amazing how nobody can imagine a world before the internet and satellite television.

Following American baseball news from Germany in detail would be virtually impossible in the 1940s.


They did have radio back then, and the American soldiers in Germany must have been following it pretty closely from Germany to be using this interrogation method.




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