Jim Leeke

From the Dugouts to the Trenches

Baseball During the Great War

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Produktbeschreibung

"Comprehensive history of the complex relationship between baseball and World War I"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780803290723
• ISBN-10: 0803290721
• Artikelnr.: 46966383

Autorenporträt

Jim Leeke, a former news journalist and U.S. Navy veteran, has covered Major League Baseball for a Northern California suburban daily. He is the author of several books, including Nine Innings for the King: The Day Wartime London Stopped for Baseball, July 4, 1918 and Ballplayers in the Great War: Newspaper Accounts of Major Leaguers in World War I Military Service.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Introduction
1. Sergeants
2. Selective Service
3. Buildup
4. Winter
5. Spring
6. New Season
7. Work or Fight
8. Calibers
9. World Series
10. Strain of Battle
11. Armistice
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index