Sometime in the mid-1900s, John McGwire stood at bat and connected. He sent the ball sailing over the left outfield fence. A home run! The crowd stood and cheered as he ran across home plate.
Then his daydream bubble burst … and the young John limped away from the empty diamond, dragging his polio-damaged leg, a victim of a poliomyelitis epidemic that ravished the United States in 1944. The serious infectious virus hit children especially hard.
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