What's New!

September 4, 2008

Added Roy "Snipe" Hansen to list of Those Who Served

Added major league biography for Johnny Sturm

 

September 3, 2008

Added major league biography for Fred Tauby and Steve Sundra

 

September 1, 2008

Found date of death for Keith Bissonnette

 

August 29, 2008

Added major league biography for Ben Wade and Nick Tremark

Baseball in Wartime Newsletter No 13 now available

Added Harry "Lefty" Schaeffer and Anthony "Nino" Bongiovanni to list of Those Who Served

 

August 26, 2008

Added major league biography for Jack Wallaesa

 

August 25, 2008

Added major league biographies for Aldon "Lefty" Wilkie, Vic Wertz, Ralph Weigel and Hal White

Updated Bill Wight's biography

 

August 22, 2008

Added major league biography for Tom Winsett

 

August 21, 2008

Added major league biography for Eddie Yount

 

August 19, 2008

Added Lew Burdette and Bud Frantz to Those Who Served list

Added Boys of an English Summer to Special Features section

 

August 18, 2008

Added 1943 Eighth Air Force All-Stars T-Shirts to Baseball in Wartime Store

 

July 31, 2008

Baseball in Wartime Newsletter no 12 now available

 

July 24, 2008

Fixed a bug that left a number of pages unreadable

Added minor league biography for Bob Vetter

 

July 11, 2008

Added major league biographies for Max Surkont, Joe Tepsic, Wayne Terwilliger, Joe Tipton and Dick Whitman

 

July 9, 2008

Added major league umpires Sam Carrigan and Bill Andress to Those Who Served list

 

July 4, 2008

Added minor league biography for Don Pinciotti

Added Baseball in Wartime Store featuring t-shirts, sweatshirts, mugs etc

 

July 3, 2008

Added minor league biography for Jim Martin

 

July 2, 2008

Added major league biography for Fritz Ostermueller

 

July 1, 2008

Baseball in Wartime Newsletter No 11 now available

 

June 25, 2008

Negro League WWII Veterans “Drafted” by MLB Teams article added to Special Features

 

June 22 to June 24, 2008

Updates to all In Memoriam biographies

 

June 21, 2008

Added Chink Outen to list of Those Who Served

(Thanks to Ken Sulik)

Added Elmer Carter to list of Negro League players who served

(Thanks to Ken Sulik)

 

June 19, 2008

Updated biography of Bert Shepard who passed away June 16

 

June 18

Added Dee Sanders to list of Those Who Served

(Thanks to Royse Parr)

Added Jeff Merron's article Our Boys of Summer to the Bibliography

Added Frank Ceresi's Chemical Warfare and Hank Gowdy articles to the Special Features section

 

June 17

Added Negro League biographies for Hank Presswood, Bill Blair and James "Red" Moore

 

June 16

Added Negro League biographies for Joe Scott, Walter McCoy, John "Mule" Miles, Bert Simmons and Jim Colzie

Added John "Red" Bailey, John "Mule" Miles, Hank Presswood and Bill Blair

to list of Negro Leaguers who served

 

June 14

Added Major League biographies for Alex Kellner, Howie Krist, Stan Lopata, Harry Perkowski and Jim Prendergast

 

June 13, 2008

Added Major League biographies for Bob Cremins and Hal Jeffcoat

 

June 10, 2008

Added Jim Colzie to list of Negro League players who served

(Thanks to Bill Nowlin)

Added Frank Fanovich to list of Those Who Served

(Thanks to Ken Sulik)

 

June 4, 2008

Added minor league outfielder/major league umpire Jim Honochick

 

June 2, 2008

Added Major League biographies for Sam Harshany and Lefty Hoerst

 

June 1, 2008

Baseball in Wartime Newsletter No 10 now available

 

May 30, 2008

Added Major League biography for George Eyrich

Added minor league biography for Larry Powell

 

May 29, 2008

Added Major League biography for Eddie Collins Jr

 

May 28, 2008

Added Major League biographies for Bill Akers, Red Anderson, Gene Bearden, Joe Beggs and Mel Clark

 

May 27, 2008

Added updated version of Those Who Served

 

May 26, 2008

Added Major League biography for Al Glossop

 

May 25, 2008

Added Major League biographies for Cy Block, Dom Dallessandro and Marv Felderman

 

May 23, 2008

Added In Memoriam biographies for Bob Price and Tom Woodruff
(thanks to Gary Fink)

Updated Bert Shepard biography with photos of Ludwigslust airfield as it is today

Major league biographies added for Max West and Tony York

Added page for U.S. Military All-Stars baseball team

 

May 21, 2008

Added In Memoriam biography for college athlete Mitchell Parks who was killed in WWII

 

May 20, 2008

Added major league biography for Lou Tost

 

May 19, 2008

Added major league biographies for Gene Patton and Sibby Sisti

 

May 16, 2008

Added Major League biography for Buddy Gremp

Ernest Burke, Bill Greason, Nath McClinic and Ted Toles added to list of Negro Leaguers who served

(thanks to Bryan Steverson)

Bill Greason added to list of Those Who Served

 

May 15, 2008

Added Major League biographies for John Douglas and Lloyd "Dutch" Dietz

Added Sampson NTS 1945 roster to Service Teams
(thanks to Bob Brady)

Added Jeremiah Bennett to list of Negro Leaguers who served

(thanks to Ken Sulik)

 

May 14, 2008

Added Walter I Brown to list of Those Who Served

Added minor league biography for Boots Zelasko

Added major league biographies for Cal McLish and Chet Kehn

 

May 13, 2008

Added major league biographies for Rube Melton and Gene Mauch

Tony Venzon (NL Umpire) added to list of Those Who Served

 

May 12, 2008

Updated Buck Templeton biography

Added major league biography for Eddie Miksis

 

May 9, 2008

Major league biography added for Mickey Owen

 

May 8, 2008

Major league biographies added for Johnny Rizzo and Lew Riggs

 

May 7, 2008

Major league biography added for Hersh Lyons

 

May 6, 2008

Added Playing Ball in the Marianas to Special Features page

 

May 5, 2008

Major league biography added for Hank Gornicki

 

May 4, 2008

Major league biography added for Walt Masterson

 

May 2, 2008

Major league biography added for Dee Moore

 

May 1, 2008

Major league biography added for Porter Vaughan

Added Fleet Marines Force (FMF) Hawaii to Service Teams page

 

April 30, 2008

Art Johnson biography updated as he passed away April 27, 2008

Baseball in Wartime Newsletter No 9 now available

 

April 28, 2008

Major league biographies added for Eddie Yost, Frank Baumholtz and  Nanny Fernandez

Hall of Fame Players Who Served added to Those Who Served page

Major League Players who Served by Branch added to Those Who Served page

 

April 26, 2008

Major league biographies added for Bill Atwood and Norm "Red" Branch

 

April 25, 2008

Added NAS Honolulu Crossroaders and NAS Kaneohe Bay Klippers to Service Teams page

 

April 24, 2008

Major league biographies added for Niles "Sonny" Jordan and Max Wilson

Search facility added to navigation bar on every page of Baseball in Wartime

 

April 23, 2008

Major league biographies added for Johnny Lucadello and Jerry Priddy

Updated Dick Wakefield biography with military service details about his three brothers

Biographies added for minor leaguers Jack Nealy and Frank Ciaffone, both killed at Iwo Jima

 

April 21, 2008

Added Fort Monmouth All-Stars roster to Service Teams page

Updated Marius Russo biography with information about his time at Fort Monmouth

 

April 19, 2008

Special Features added: New Orleans Ballplayers in the Armed Forces, The Bedford Ballplayers,
When the Boys Came Home to Atchison and the 1943 ETO World Series

April 18, 2008

Major league biographies added for Sam Chapman, Benny McCoy, Denny Galehouse and Rankin Johnson

Updated Johnny Sain biography with photo taken at NAS Corpus Christi in 1944

 

April 17, 2008

Moved Babe Ruth, Al Schacht, POW, Battle of the Bulge and First to Go articles
to new Special Features page

 

April 16, 2008

Added Skeeter Banks to list of Negro Leaguers who Served with Armed Forces in WWII

 

April 14, 2008

Major league biographies added for Tommy Henrich, Marius Russo and Charlie Keller

Updated Art Johnson biography

Photos added to Japanese Wartime Baseball

 

April 13, 2008

Major league biographies added for Red Durrett, Ed Head, Claude Corbitt and Chris Haughey

Updated Tex Aulds biography

Added In Memoriam biography for Bill Walsh

Updated Marvin Crater biography

Mays Copeland added to Those Who Served list

 

April 4, 2008

Major league biography added for Stan Rojek

 

April 3, 2008

Major league biography added for Dick Wakefield

Updated Art Johnson biography and confirmed (via Stan Haney and Art himself) that his
year of birth is 1919 and not 1916 as reported elsewhere

Photos added to biographies of Johnny Grodzicki, Cecil Travis, Vinnie Smith, Russ Meers,
 Mickey Harris, Joe Grace and George Earnshaw

 

April 2, 2008

Minor league biography added for Steve Sakas

Major league biographies added for Art Johnson and Virgil Trucks

 

April 1, 2008

Baseball in Wartime Newsletter included on OCLC's WorldCat #191870594

Major league biographies added for Pinky Higgins and Fred Hutchinson

Baseball in Wartime Newsletter No 8 now available

 

March 31, 2008

Major league biographies added for Dario Lodigiani, Tom Ferrick, Hoot Evers, Billy Hitchcock and Jimmy Bloodworth

 

March 30, 2008

Minor league biography for Gordon Bradshaw updated

Major league biographies added for Culley Rikard, George "Skeets" Dickey, Tom Carey and Buster Mills

 

March 29, 2008

Major league biographies added for Al Campanis and Hi Bithorn

 

March 28, 2008

Minor league biographies added for Fred Chumley, Joe Damato, Russ Niller, Dick Lang and Bob Wooten

 

March 26, 2008

Those Who Served list updated.

Service team rosters updated for 71st Infantry Division and 29th Infantry Division

March 25, 2008

Minor League biographies added for Victor Slobe, Joe Loadholtes and Joe Chiozza