Abstract
Abstract The signing of the armistice left about 1,800,000 men longing to return home. Manifestly, they could not all be transported back to the States at once, so to keep the troops occupied while they awaited passage home, General Pershing resorted to an intensive program of military instruction, drill, and busywork. As a result the men became bored, disgruntled and embittered to the point that in some parts of France mutiny broke out. to ease the situation, Pershing substituted a program of athletics and amusements, a change of policy that had a palliative impact. As Stars and Stripes stated in June of 1919, after the armistice baseball and other sports “proved a boon to the Yanks,”; diverting the soldiers’ minds at a time when “the call of home was strong”
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