I agree that Travis should be inducted and I made a post about it on the old board while he was still alive. He lost nearly four full seasons to WW2 and when he returned he was a mere shadow of the player he had been though he was only 31. He went from batting .359 in his final year before the war to being a .250 hitter in 1946 and finished a couple of years later. He nearly had his feet amputated due to frostbite he suffered during the Battle of the Bulge but he never blamed that for his failure to perform when he returned to baseball.
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