| Hardball on the Home Front: Major League Replacement Players of World War II Contributor(s): Cleve, Craig Allen (Author) |
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ISBN: 0786418974 ISBN-13: 9780786418978 Publisher: McFarland & Company OUR PRICE: $34.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2004 Annotation: The author of this book points out that the true story of wartime baseball rests mostly with the players whose careers were not so well remembered or documented. He highlights nine players who took the field while the major leaguers were fighting in the war. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Sports & Recreation | Baseball - General - Biography & Autobiography |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2004017516 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.02" W x 9.08" (0.69 lbs) 203 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: More than 5000 major and minor league baseball players left the baseball diamond to serve in the military during World War II, but President Roosevelt insisted that baseball still be played to boost the country's morale. More than 400 replacement players made their major league debuts between 1943 and 1945, among them Sal Maglie, Andy Pafko, Red Schoendienst and Stan Musial. The author of this book points out that the true story of wartime baseball rests mostly with the players whose careers were not so well remembered or documented. He highlights nine players--Frank Mancuso, Ford Mullen, Ed Carnett, Lee Pfund, George Hausmann, Cy Buker, Bill Lefebvre, Eddie Basinski, and Nick Strincevich--who took the field while the major leaguers were fighting in the war. They share their memories of being called up to play in the majors, and their feelings about providing much needed and much wanted entertainment to thousands of Americans during the war years. |