sentences:  Because of the depleted talent pool resulting from many players being in the military, the Tigers and the Cubs both fielded teams which would have been considered mediocre before or after the war.Warren Brown, author of a 1946 history of the Cubs, commented on this by titling his chapter on the 1945 World Series, "World's Worst Series".Sportswriter Frank Graham jokingly called this Series "the fat men versus the tall men at the office picnic."