The North African World Series (also known as the "GI World Series") was a best two-out-of-three-game baseball championship played on October 3 and 4, 1943, between the Casablanca Yankees and the Algiers Streetwalkers, drawn from the ranks of American soldiers and sailors stationed in North Africa during World War II.[1][2][3][4]
^"The Yankees" Win North Africa, Too" (PDF). Retrieved November 7, 2013.[dead link]
^Wanda Ellen Wakefield (1997). Playing to Win: Sports and the American Military, 1898–1945. SUNY Press. ISBN 9780791433140. Retrieved November 7, 2013.
^"WW2 US Medical Research Centre: Unit Histories – 6th General Hospital". Med-dept.com. Archived from the original on March 6, 2013. Retrieved November 7, 2013.
^"North African "World Series" Starts Sunday". European Stars and Stripes. October 4, 1943. Retrieved November 7, 2013.
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