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he year is 1942, and while America is reeling from the first blows of WWII, Osgood is merely a nine-year-old young man moving into Baltimore. As the war rages somewhere considerably beyond the boundaries of his hometown, he spends his times delivering newspapers, riding the trolley to the neighborhood amusement park, going to Orioles' football video games, and goofing around with his younger sister. Having a sharp vision for details, Osgood captures the surface of life in an exceedingly different era, a period prior to the polio vaccine and the atomic bomb. In his community of Liberty Levels, gaslights still glowed on every place, milkmen sent bottles of milk, and a loaf of loaf of bread cost nine cents. Osgood reminisces about his first fistfight with a kid from a nearby, his years as a child crush on a girl named Sue, and his relationship with his dad, a going salesman. He also talks about his early on love for radio and exactly how he used to huddle under the ranges after his parents acquired turned off the lights, listening to Superman, The Lone Ranger, The Shadow, and, of course, to football video games. Defending Baltimore Against Opponent Strike is a gloriously funny and nostalgic slice of American life and a moving take a look at World Battle II from the point of view of a child far away from the fighting with each other, but very conscious of the reverberations.
