The James Logan Courier

By Billy O'Keefe
McClatchy-Tribune (MCT)

The new, subtitle-free "Medal of Honor" can signify all it wants that it's a new beginning, but make no mistake: If you've played a warfare game in the last few years — "Battlefield: Bad Company" and "Modern Warfare" most especially — then you've seen this before.

Don't automatically confuse that for a swipe against the game, which has a consistently entertaining (though rarely exemplary) single-player campaign and a strong (if loosely familiar) multiplayer component. The groundings in real-world Afghanistan give it a hook the other games lack, and while "Honor's" dabbles in fiction with its storyline, it displays a reverence for its soldiers that's eluded the war shooter genre since it abandoned World War II.

But seriously, you've done this before. "Honor" throws players into the usual FUBAR scenarios that pop up in war games with creative liberty at their feet, so expect to be ambushed a few times and pinned down while fighting a Taliban force that has 10 soldiers for your every one. Expect, also, to dodge gunfire on an ATV, man a turret gun in an Apache, call in laser-guided airstrikes, pick snipers off a mountain range and stalk Taliban in pitch blackness with the assistance of night vision goggles.

From wikipedia:
Joshua Gibson (December 21, 1911 – January 20, 1947) was an American catcher in baseball's Negro Leagues. He played for the Homestead Grays from 1930 to 1931, moved to the Pittsburgh Crawfords from 1932 to 1936, and returned to the Grays from 1937 to 1939 and 1942 to 1946. In 1937 he played for Ciudad Trujillo in Trujillo's Dominican League and from 1940 to 1941 he played in the Mexican League for Rojos del Aguila de Veracruz. Gibson served as the first manager of the Santurce Crabbers, one of the most historic franchises of the Puerto Rico Baseball League. He stood 6-foot-1 (185 cm) and weighed 210 pounds (95 kg) at the peak of his career.

Learn about Josh Gibson and other Negro League players at the Negro League Baseball Players Association website.