Baseball’s Dead of World War II: A Roster of Professional Players Who Died in Service
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Gary Bedingfield is a passionate and dedicated man. He has a passion for professional baseball and a sincere dedication to preserving the memory of the pro ballplayers who died in service during the Second World War.
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Anyone who doubts that needs to look no further than Bedingfield's excellent Baseball in Wartime website or his blog to see and experience his passion and dedication. A Roster of Professional Players who Died in Service McFarland, December ; and students of both the game and the war will be both impressed and amazed by the exhaustiveness of his study. Baseball fans know that a lot of baseball's stars enlisted for, or were drafted into, wartime service.
Baseball’s Dead of World War II
Ted Williams was a flyer who would go on to fight in a second war in Korea. Bob Feller served on a ship in the Pacific Theater. Hank Greenberg was in the China-Burma-India theater.
Even lesser known players are known for their wartime service. Of course, part of the reason that we know about the service years of Williams, Feller, Greenberg and Berg is because they lived through the war.
He was a great sandlot player in his youth but struggled when he made it to the minor leagues in Sports betting is used every single day around globe. There's a problem loading this menu right now. Heroes don't come back. Earl "Lefty" Springer was killed in Nennig, Germany.
They came back and, in the case of Williams, Feller and Greenberg, went on to have Hall of Fame careers. Not all ballplayers were so lucky.
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Many men who might have been stars were killed before they ever had a chance to take the field professionally. Others, such as the minor league ball players who died in service, never had the opportunity to play a major league game. And then there were catcher Harry O'Neill and outfielder Elmer Gedeon -- the two major league players who died while in the service during the second world war. Without Bedingfield's passion and dedication, they would be all but forgotten by now.
bahana-line.com: Baseball's Dead of World War II: A Roster of Professional Players Who Died in Service (): Gary Bedingfield: Books. A Roster of Professional Players Who Died in Service served in the military during World War II, few can name the two major leaguers who died in action.
Baseball's Dead of World War II is a thorough examination of the lives of the professional baseball players who did not return home after the war and, as such, it is a remarkable chronicle of how the war affected an entire industry that succeeded only the strength of the men who took the field to play the game of baseball. Bedingfield has compiled and abstracted the lives of each pro baseball player who died in service during WWII and provided readers with an amazing chronicle of sacrifices by men who came ever so close to realizing the dream of playing professional baseball, only to have the dream stolen by the Axis.
Wachtler, for example, was born in in Omaha, Nebraska. He was a great sandlot player in his youth but struggled when he made it to the minor leagues in Wachtler was dead, a casualty of the Battle of the Bulge.
Then there was George Meyer of Blackduck, Minnesota. He played one season of minor league ball in before being called to duty as an 18 year old youth. Ten days after Elmer Wachtler died, Meyer was in a barn in Belgium. The enemy attacked the area with mortars. Meyer did not survive the attack. None of us will find the names of Elmer J. Wachtler or George Meyer in any history books, and their names are not immortalized in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
I was so amazed to find him in your book. It was wonderful to read the few stories you had on him. Thank you so much.. Gary Bedingfield pays tribute to these men, including Manuel P. However, unlike these guys who made a genuine sacrifice Williams sought a deferment and as a result he was the recepient of abuse from fans and players […].
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