Colonel Potter and the Shot (Literally) Heard ‘Round the World

On December 7, Col. Sherman T. Potter, U.S. Army (Ret.), passed away after a bout of pneumonia.

Given that perhaps the most famous home run in baseball history—Bobby Thomson’s October 1951 “Shot Heard ‘Round the World”—occurred at the height of the Korean War, baseball and M*A*S*H were bound to collide, which they did in Episode 200, “A War for All Seasons.”

This episode opens with Col. Potter, dressed as Father Time, ringing in 1951, and tracks the 4077th personnel’s lives across the changing of the seasons, until bidding 1951 farewell in the same manner at episode&rsquo...

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