Baseball’s Dead of World War II

April 21, 2010 by Gary Bedingfield · Leave a Comment

There has never been a baseball book like Baseballâ€™s Dead of World War II.Â (Baseball historian Bill Swank) A few years ago I began compiling biographies on professional baseball players who lost their lives in military service during World War II. At the time I had around 25 names to work with . . . […]

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Book Review: Joe Cronin, A Life In Baseball

March 12, 2010 by Daniel Shoptaw · Leave a Comment

One of the perks of being a baseball bloggers is, at times, you get a chance to get a free baseball book on the off-chance that you’ll write about it to an audience that may care what you have to say. Â I’ve had four or five of these opportunities come directly to me, but this […]

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