Personal
After the 1917 season, Alexander was traded by the Phillies to the Cubs. Due to World War I, the United States drafted Alexander into the military and sent him to fight in the Battle of the Argonne Forest. There he was exposed to German mustard gas, lost much of his hearing, and suffered from shell shock.
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