Happy Veterans Day, everyone.
There have been a number of good books linking baseball with wartime. Here are just a few:
- When Baseball Went to War
- From the Dugouts to the Trenches: Baseball during the Great War
- War Fever: Boston, Baseball, and America in the Shadow of the Great War
- Baseball’s War Roster: A Biographical Dictionary of Major and Negro League Players Who Served, 1861 to the Present
- The Victory Season: The End of World War II and the Birth of Baseball’s Golden Age
- Cloudbuster Nine: The Untold Story of Ted Williams and the Baseball Team That Helped Win World War II
Here’s a link to past references to the day on the Bookshelf.
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