In 1918, the new York Giants traveled to Marlin, Texas for spring training. In April, the team from the Air-Service Pilot Training Center at Richfield Aviation Camp came from Waco to Marlin to play an exhibition game with the Giants. After the game Giants, Manager John McGraw took up Colonel Archibald Miller on his offer of a flight. That’s McGraw in the forward seat of a Curtiss biplane, with Miller on the wing. Newspaper reports said McGraw thought the 20-minute flight was “one experience he needed.”
McGraw, and most of the Giants, flew again with Miller and his colleagues two-years later, when after a game with the aviators’ team, The New York Times said, “McGraw and most of his regulars, most of the rookies, Dr. Birs, the club dentist, and three of the newspaper men accompanying the club made flights.”
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