Saturday, December 26, 2009

Baseball Greats Go To World War II

The November 11, 2008 Stars and Stripes had an article about baseball players going off to World War II.


JERRY COLEMAN-- In nine seasons with the New York Yankees, he was on four World Series winners and in the 1960s was a broadcaster. During World War II and the Korean War he was a Marine Corps aviator. These service terms cut short his career, but he never regretted it.


BOB FELLER, Hall of Fame. Signed up one day after Pearl Harbor without consulting the Cleveland Indians because, as he said, it was the right thing to do. He spent four years in the Navy as a gun captain.


MONTE IRWIN-- Negro League. Later one of the first blacks to play in the Major Leagues. His unit secured parts of France after D-Day, but was kept away from the heaviest fighting because of the bias against black soldiers.

Baseball Goes to War. --Cooter

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