The Zip Comics 25 Steel Sterling story written by Robert Kanigher seems to have been inspired by the 1941 Yankees/Dodgers World Series.
The story opens with regular Steel Sterling associates Looney and Police Officer Clancy exiting a baseball game that the Brooklyn Dodgers have lost, with Clancy complaining bitterly about the outcome, which seems to have cost the Dodgers the championship. Notably,hit the newsstands in late January 1942, which makes the timing right for this story to have been written shortly after the New York Yankees beat the Brooklyn Dodgers in the World Series Oct 1 – Oct 6, 1941.
As a long-suffering Dodgers fan, Officer Clancy decided to buy a"victory cup" and present it to the Dodgers himself. He buys a cheap old trophy with an unusual history from a second-hand shop, and as he's polishing it, he disappears. Looney and Steel Sterling himself soon follow, and the three of them find themselves in the distant past of Ancient Greece 2,000 years ago.
While the Dodgers lost to the Yankees in the 1941 World Series and would lose to them again in 1947, 1949, 1952, and 1953, they finally won their first World Series in 1955 — something short of 2,000 years, but it can be hard to keep perspective on the passage of time when you're a long-suffering sports fan.
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