Here’s a quick, pre-spring training, WWII video highlighting famous MLB players who gave up years of their baseball career in order to serve their beloved country in a time of war!
Let’s remember them by adding any war stories of them that you have either heard of or know from first hand experience, in the comments below or a 30 second Blurt (see the button near the submit comment button).
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Fantastic video.
You’ll find lots of information on baseball players who served with the military during WWII at the baseballinwartime.com website. I recommend you take a moment to read the biographies of over 130 minor league players (and two major leaguers) who lost their lives while in the armed forces. You’ll find these biographies here http://www.baseballinwartime.com/in_memoriam/in_memoriam.htm
Gary Bedingfield
Baseball in Wartime (Founder and Editor)
Author of “Baseball’s Dead of World War II”
Website: http://www.baseballinwartime.com
Blog: http://baseballinwartime.blogspot.com
Email: [email protected]
Thanks Gary & great site! I’ve been there before & love it! For those of you that haven’t been there yet, you have got to check it out, you won’t be sorry!