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Stratton did not reappear after his accident in the annual All-Star game between the American League and The National League, but in a benefit game for him, held in 1939 between the White Sox and the local National League franchise, the Cubs. He then coached at the White Sox for a couple of years before returning to Texas to establish a feeder team for the White Sox in his Home town of Greenville. In 1946 he surprised everybody by returning to pitch with the minor league Club Sherman in East Texas, recording 18 wins and eight losses for the season. He continued to pitch into the 1950s. His comeback attempt had such a huge impact on the American sporting public that the Jimmy Stewart film Was released only three years later, in 1949, featuring several Baseball stars ‘playing themselves’, including Gene Bearden (Cleveland Indians), Bill Dickey (New York Yankees) and Jimmy Dykes and Mervyn Shea (Chicago White Sox). Stratton died in 1982, aged 70. — Ian Currie, Essex

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