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Gary Bedingfield

Honoring him who honors the veterans

June 7, 2012

Rob Neyer at SB Nation posted this item about Gary Bedingfield, host of Baseball in Wartime and author of Baseball’s Dead of World War II: A Roster of Professional Players Who Died in Service. Awhile back I had a chance to e-chat with Bedingfield, a native of Great Britain, about his interest in paying tribute […]

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The new British invasion

January 2, 2012

Back in the 1960s, it was the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Herman’s Hermits, et al, crashing on the rock scene. Now they’re trying to take over the National Pastime. How else to explain the influx of British authors writing about America’s game? And it would be so bad if they weren’t doing it so well. I’m […]

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* For the boys, part 2: An overview of service in World War II

November 11, 2009

Gary Bedingfield, a 46-year-old British citizen, hosts the excellent baseballinwartime.com, a site devoted to ballplayers who served during WW II. His new book, Baseball’s Dead of World War II: A Roster of Professional Players Who Died in Service, has recently been published by McFarland. In an e-mail interview, Bedingfield describes how he came to his […]

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