The game must go on : Hank Greenberg, Pete Gray, and the great days of baseball on the home front in WWII

Klima, John, 1974-

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"In the early days of WWII, President Roosevelt was faced with a difficult decision: stop all of professional baseball for the good of victory or lose a vital part of morale. Roosevelt's answer saved baseball for generations to come. He decided that THE GAME MUST GO ON. This is the story of American baseball during WWII, both the players who left to join the war effort, and the struggle to keep the game going on the home front. Many of the top pl...

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Baseball United States History 20th century

Baseball players United States History 20th century

United States Armed Forces Sports

World War, 1939-1945

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ISBN:

9781250064790
1250064791

Edition:

First edition

Description:

x, 418 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-401) and index

Contents:

The green light, 1941. Good-bye, Hank ; Ghost on his shoulder ; Billy and the Kid ; War! ; The green light
Over the hump, 1942-1944. Earn it ; A new contraption ; Bad check ; Billy's war ; Too tall, too short, too young, too old ; Plasma for the soul ; Time for miracles ; Satisfied to be alive ; Guts of our kids ; Baseball in the ETO ; One man short ; He died on the water ; One arm, one leg, one nation
Waiting for Hank, 1945. Long-lost hero ; Another war begins ; Waiting for Hank ; As large, as strong, as powerful ; No singing in the shower ; Take that, you fuckin' war ; The comeback kids ; The $300,000 home run
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LCCN:

2015006040

Control Number:

1211927

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