On this Memorial Day, I just wanted to offer a totally inadequate not of appreciation to all the men and women who sacrificed for this country.
In addition to Gary Bedingfield’s thorough Baseball’s Dead of World War II: A Roster of Professional Players Who Died in Service, other books on baseball players and wartime include:
- When Baseball Went to War, by Nowlin
- Spartan Seasons: How Baseball Survived the Second World War, by Goldstein
- Playing for Their Nation: Baseball and the American Military during World War II, by Bullock
- Baseball in World War II Europe (Images of Sports) (Sports History), by Bedingfield
- POW Baseball in World War II: The National Pastime Behind Barbed Wire, by Wolter
- Dugout to Foxhole: Interviews With Baseball Players Whose Careers Were Affected by World War II, by Van Blair
- Ted Williams at War, by Nowlin
- Baseball and Other Matters in 1941, by Creamer
- Hardball on the Home Front: Major League Replacement Players of World War II, by Cleve
- Teenager on First, Geezer at Bat, 4-F on Deck: Major League Baseball in 1945, by Szalontai
- The Corporal Was a Pitcher: The Courage of Lou Brissie, by Berkow
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