When Baseball Went to War

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Todd Anton, Bill Nowlin
Triumph Books, Nov 1, 2008 - Sports & Recreation - 256 pages
Combined with never-before-published photographs and other special features, this account tells the compelling and unforgettable story of ballplayers such as Ted Williams, Dom DiMaggio, Jerry Coleman, Bob Feller, Lou Brissie, and Johnny Pesky who answered their nation's call to serve their country.
 

Selected pages

Contents

ESSAYS
31
BALLPLAYERS
49
PERSPECTIVES
171
CHAMPIONSHIPS
201
LISTS
215
CONTRIBUTORS
234
AFTERWORD Baseball and War by Terry Allvord and Todd Anton
239
Copyright

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About the author (2008)

Todd Anton is a U.S. history teacher, an author, and a member of the National World War II Museum's board of trustees. He was nominated as Teacher of the Year by the Veterans of Foreign Wars as a result of his and his students' nearly 2,000 interviews with veterans of World War II. Bill Nowlin is the vice president of the Society for American Baseball Research, the founder of Rounder Records, a former political science professor, and the author of more than 20 books about the Red Sox. Curt Schilling is a former pitcher for Major League Baseball. Anton, Nowlin, and Schilling collaborated on an episode of Fox TV's War Stories devoted to World War II and baseball.

Bibliographic information

TitleWhen Baseball Went to War
EditorsTodd Anton, Bill Nowlin
ContributorCurt Schilling
PublisherTriumph Books, 2008
ISBN1600781268, 9781600781261
Length256 pages
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Sports & Recreation / Baseball / History
  
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