Merkle, in the end, could boast a lengthy and respectable career with the New York Giants, but that career was never enough to erase the indelible legacy that was left by a single infamous rookie-season blunder.
It was the manager who had brought on Bob Stanley in relief and who had also opted to leave a gimpy Bill Buckner in the defensive lineup with the season and the Series squarely on the line.
USS Salerno Bay (CVE-110) (ex-Winjah Bay) was laid down on 7 February 1944 by the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Co., Tacoma, Washington; launched on 26 September 1944; sponsored by Mrs.
On 21 September, she anchored in BucknerBay, Okinawa.
In the spring of that year, she was ordered inactivated; and, in June, she sailed north, from Norfolk to Boston, to prepare for decommissioning and mothballing.
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