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Detroit's closest chance at the Olympics? From Oct. 30, 1939 NY Times. With war broken out in Europe, Tokyo at war with China and having given up the Olympics to Finland who was now a month away from invasion by the Soviet Union, Detroit appeared to be next in line. Mayor Reading was excited, Frederick Matthai not.
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During the war years Detroit had a baseball team made up of military members that reportedly could have competed with the best of the national teams,they were dissolved at the end of the war as service members transferred to different duty stations or were discharged.