Doctor Arlie Pond was pitching for the Baltimore Orioles of the National League during the late-1890s when the Spanish-American War started. He had won 16 games for the pennant winning Orioles during 1896 and had won 18 games in 1897, but at the start of hostilities he entered the Army, and joined a medical unit. He was first sent to Cuba and later to the Philippines. After the War when the Philippines Insurrection started, Arlie Pond left active duty and stayed in the Philippines and devoted the rest of his life to combating disease. |