Whenever I’m watching a nationally televised baseball game they, without a doubt, compare some stat from someone in the game against a similar stat from someone who killed Japs in World War II. Without fail when you’re watching the Yankees and Red Sox (again) on FOX this Saturday afternoon they will put Honus Wagner’s and Robinson Cano’s pictures side by side and under them it will say “Stolen bases before turning 27 years old”, 210 and 208 respectively, and “Japs killed before turning 27 years old”, 210 and 1 respectively. Just because baseball has traditionally been a sport obsessed with its own history and statistics in general doesn’t mean that it’s the only sport that has a rich history and a ton of stats. And that’s why I’m going to tell you the story of one of The War’s, and hockey’s, unsung heroes

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