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Joe Guzzardi: Remembering the ‘Losing Pitcher’

Mulcahy was the first Major League Baseball regular drafted into WWII, serving 53 months and earning a Bronze Star before returning to a diminished pitching career.

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Hugh Mulcahy, a right-handed pitcher who started regularly for the dismal 1940s-era Philadelphia Phillies, was the first MLB regular drafted to serve in World War II. Inducted on March 8, 1941 — nine months before Pearl Harbor — Mulcahy lost five potentially productive MLB seasons. Before the 27-year-old left in 1941 for Camp Edwards on Cape Cod, Mulcahy was full of vim and vigor. He predicted that a year away from professional baseball should n…

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Remembering the ‘losing pitcher’

Hugh Mulcahy, a right-handed pitcher who started regularly for the dismal 1940s-era Philadelphia Phillies, was the first MLB regular drafted to serve in World War II.

·Cherokee County, United States
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Daily Journal broke the news in Cherokee County, United States on Tuesday, November 11, 2025.
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