Teenager on First, Geezer at Bat, 4-F on Deck: Major League Baseball in 1945

by JamesD.Szalontai (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2009

  $26.84

  The Second World War was in the bottom of the ninth inning in Germany and Japan, but back at home the bases were loaded with baseball players, many of them new to the big leagues. While the game's stars traded their stockings and gloves for khaki and rifles, America's leaders believed baseball would boost morale at home.