This just in: Baseball’s War Roster

June 7, 2012

No sooner do I get done composing an entry about Gary Bedingfield than Brett Kiser’s new book from McFarland arrives.

While Bedingfield concentrates primarily on the Major and Minor Leaguers in World War II, Kiser’s Baseball’s War Roster: A Biographical Dictionary of Major and Negro League Players Who Served, 1861 to the Present, is, by its title, much more inclusive. It features ballplayers from the Civil War and Spanish-American Wars through Vietnam, and substituting Negro Leaguers for the minor leaguers. each athlete gets a capsule bio citing highlights from his pro career and military service.

Regrettably, there are no illustration save for the cover photo, but this is still a very nice tribute to those who served.

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