Remember “Band of Brothers,” the HBO miniseries based on Stephen Ambrose’s book of the same name? Hopefully you do, because it was a fantastic production that was at times gripping, touching, and devastating. I mention this because when I think of Jacoby Ellsbury, I think of a character from Band of Brothers: Private Webster.
In the series’s fifth episode, Webster is wounded during combat in the Netherlands. He does not appear in episodes six or seven, only returning in episode eight, after the titular band has seen their most harrowing action of the war during the Battle of the Bulge.