On June 26th, 1944, at Polo Fields in New York City, the only three-team round-robin game ever played took place. It was coined the "Tri-Cornered Baseball Game" by sports writers and was carried out in support of the Allied Forces in WWII.

It worked like this, each team would play in the field and bat two consecutive innings and then sit for an inning until they played a total of six innings.

The structure of the game was so complicated that a Colombia University math professor, Paul A Smith, was brought in to structure the game and to help official scorers to keep track of what was happening during the game.

Even though players had been thinned out by war time conscription and volunteerism, organizers were able to rustle up future Hall of Famers like Paul Waner, Joe Medwick and Ernie Lombardi. Other notables included Ralph Branca, Eddie Stanky, Dixie Walker and Snuffy Stirnweiss. Leo Durocher managed the Dodgers, Joe McCarthy helmed the Yankees, and Mel Ott was in the dugout for the host Giants (Durocher and McCarthy, it should be noted, managed the game from opposite wings of the same bench). Even legendary umpire Jocko Conlan and his perfect baseball name were on hand.

Final score: Dodgers 5, Yankees 1, Giants 0. However, the real winner was the war effort, which netted more than $56,000,000 in bond purchases.

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