Baseball in Wartime - WWII Baseball Bibliography

World War II Baseball Bibliography

by Gary Bedingfield

Having spent many years researching this subject I have come across a lot of articles and books about wartime baseball. Here's a list of most of them. Please contact me if you can add to this list click here

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Baseball, like most sports and games like blackjack, originated in different forms in Europe before having their definably rules set and made into the game we know today in North America. Much has been written about its history, and below is a list of some of those books.

Books

Author	Book Title	Location	Publisher	Year
Alexander, Charles C	Breaking the Slump: Baseball in the Depression Era	New York	Columbia University	2002
Allen, Thomas E	If They Hadn't Gone: How World War II Affected Major League Baseball	Springfield, MO	Southwest Missouri State University	2004
Anton, Todd	No Greater Love: Life Lessons from the Men Who Saved Baseball	Burlington, MA	Rounder Books	2007
Bedingfield, Gary	Baseball in World War II Europe	Charlotte, NC	Arcadia Publishing	2000
Bloomfield, Gary L	Duty, Honor, Victory: America's Athletes in World War II	Guilford, CT	Lyons Press	2004
Borst, Bill	The Best of Seasons: The 1944 St Louis Cardinals and St Louis Browns	Jefferson, NC	McFarland and Co	1995
Bullock, Stephen R	Playing for their Nation: Baseball and the American Military During World War II	Lincoln, NE	University of Nebraska Press	2004
Cleve, Craig Allen	Hardball on the Home Front	Jefferson, NC	McFarland and Co	2004
Creamer, Robert W	Baseball in '41: a Celebration of the Best Baseball Season Ever	New York	Viking	1991
Crissey Jr, Harrington E	Athletes Away	Philadelphia	Archway Press	1984
Crissey Jr, Harrington E	Teenagers, Graybeards and 4fs: Volume 1: The National League	Philadelphia	self-published	1982
Crissey Jr, Harrington E	Teenagers, Graybeards and 4fs: Volume 2: The American League	Philadelphia	self-published	1982
Finoli, David	For the Good of the Country	Jefferson, NC	McFarland and Co	2002
Gilbert, Bill	They Also Served: Baseball and the Home Front, 1941-1945	New York	Crown	1992
Gilbert, Thomas	Baseball at War: World War II and the Fall of the Color Line	New York	Watts	1997
Goldstein, Richard	Spartan Seasons: How Baseball Survived the Second World War	New York	Macmillan Company	1980
Kashatus, William C	One Armed Wonder: Pete Gray, Wartime Baseball, and the American Dream	Jefferson, NC	McFarland and Co	1995
Kelley, Brent	The Pastime in Turbulence: Interviews with Baseball Players of the 1940s	Jefferson, NC	McFarland and Co	2001
Kershaw, Alex	The Bedford Boys: One American Town's Ultimate D-Day Sacrifice	Cambridge, MA	Da Capo Press	2003
Mead, William B	Baseball Goes to War: Stars Don Khaki, 4-Fs Vie for Pennant	Washington, DC	Farragut Books	1985
Mochizuki, Ken	Baseball Saved Us	New York, NY	Lee & Low Books	1995
Moore, Gary W	Playing With the Enemy	El Dorado Hills, CA	Savas Beatie	2006
Nowlin, Bill	Ted Williams at War	Burlington, MA	Rounder Books	2007
Schacht, Al	GI Had Fun	New York	Putnam's Sons	1945
Turner, Frederick	When the Boys Came Back: Baseball and 1946	New York	Henry Holt and Co	1996
Van Blair, Rick	Dugout to Foxhole: Interviews with Baseball Players Whose Careers Were Affected by World War II	Jefferson, NC	McFarland and Co	1994
Wakefield, Wanda Ellen	Playing to Win: Sports and the American Military 1898-1945	New York	State University of New York Press	1997
Wolter, Tim	POW Baseball in World War II	Jefferson, NC	McFarland and Co	2002

Articles

Author	Title	Publication	Date	Pages
----	War and Baseball	Baseball Magazine	February 1942	389-391
----	Some Sidelights and Footnotes of '42	Baseball Magazine	October 1942	497-499
----	Footnotes of '43	Baseball Magazine	November 1943	405-407
----	This Unusual Year	Baseball Magazine	December 1943	237-241
----	The Major Leagues of '44	Baseball Magazine	December 1944	239-242
----	1945 Roundup	Baseball Magazine	December 1945	237-241
----	National League [and] American League Players in Service during World War II	Baseball Magazine	April 1946	378-380
----	Pearl Harbour: A Failure of Baseball?	Journal of Popular Culture	Spring 1982	67-74
Ahrens, Arthur R	Phil Masi Recalls Major League Baseball in the 1940s	Baseball Digest	February 1978	50-61
Bachman, Bart	A Photo, a War, a Missing Finger and What Might Have Been	Conway Daily Sun	Jan 19 1996	---
Bedingfield, Gary	The Battle of Wembley	USA Softball Magazine	March/April1996	12
Bedingfield, Gary	Taking Baseball to War	Army	September 1996	62-63
Bedingfield, Gary	When Virginia Baseball Went to War	Roanoker	April1997	46-48
Bedingfield, Gary	The Final Pitch	Our State	June 1998	84-87
Bedingfield, Gary	Everything to Live For: Remembering "Lefty" Brewer	Vintage and Classic Baseball Collector Magazine	July/Aug 1998	50-53
Bedingfield, Gary	Ambassadors of the Game	Army	August 1998	47-49
Bedingfield, Gary	Paul Campbell Played for the Love of the Game	Diehard	December 1998	21
Bedingfield, Gary	Until the Boys Came Home	Balls and Strikes	July/Aug 1998	9
Bedingfield, Gary	Yanks Touch Base and the City's Hearts	Bygones (Nottingham Evening Post)	July 3, 1999	22-23
Bloodgood, Clifford	The Ballplayer and the War	Baseball Magazine	May 1943	525-526, 546
Bloodgood, Clifford	The Abnormal Season of 1946	Baseball Magazine	December 1946	228-232
Brands, Edward G	"Keep 'em Playing," Men in Service Chorus to Query "Should Game go on During War?"	The Sporting News	April 16, 1942	---
Bullock, Stephen R	Playing for their Nation: The American Military and Baseball during World War II	Journal of Sport History Vol 27 No 1	Spring 2000	67-89
Daniel, Daniel M	Baseball's War Effort Seeks Vast Sums for Vital Causes	Baseball Magazine	June 1942	291-293, 332
Daniel, Daniel M	DiMaggio takes Cut from $40,000 to $50.00 a month	The Sporting News	Feb 25, 1943	1
Daniel, Daniel M	Major Leagues Have Proud Record in War and Relief Enterprises	Baseball Magazine	September 1943	327-329
Daniel, Daniel M	Roosevelt Saved Baseball with his 1942 Letter to Judge Landis	Baseball Magazine	June 1945	227-229
Daniel, Daniel M	Wartime Baseball "Rationing" Finds Fans Tolerant, Eager for Game	Baseball Magazine	April 1944	367-369
Dorfman, Sid	Bert Shepard and Doctor Loidl	Newark Star-Ledger	Mar 24, 1993	?
Freeburg, Dwight	Wartime Baseball	Baseball Magazine	April 1942	509-511
Gould, James M	The President Says "Play Ball"	Baseball Magazine	March 1942	435-437
Graham, Frank Jr	When Baseball Went to War	Sports Illustrated	April 17, 1967	78-82
Kernan, Joe	Vet Louis Alberigo Gave His Life Before Playing Major League Baseball	Cranston Herald	May 30, 1996
Lee, Ray	Yanks top Thunderbolts to take Diamond Crown	Stars and Stripes (UK)	Oct 1, 1942	---
Lloyd, Pam	Going to Bat for Wartime Sluggers	Lookout MARPAC News	Feb 26, 2007	11
Merron, Jeff	Our Boys of Summer: When Chapel Hill had the All-Star Baseball Team	Chapel Hill Magazine	Mar 1, 2008	150-151
Nicholson, William G	Baseball's Most Chaotic Year, 1945	Baseball Digest	August 1971	70-78
Panaccio, Tim	How it was During the War Years	Baseball Digest	January 1977	68-70
Percoco, James A	Baseball and World War II: A Study of the Landis-Roosevelt Correspondence	OAH Magazine of History	Summer 1992	---
Romiger, Donald W	From Playing Field to Battleground: The US Navy V-5 Pre-Flight Program in World War II	Journal of Sport History 12	Winter 1985	252-264
Senigo, Mark E	English like US Sports	Stars and Stripes (UK)	April 17, 1942	---
Senigo, Mark E	6,000 see Canadians Beat Yanks	Stars and Stripes (UK)	Aug 8, 1942	6
Speer, Renwick W	Wartime Baseball --- Not That Bad	The Baseball Research Journal	1983	109-115
Tarvin, A H	Baseball and the War Again	Baseball Magazine	January 1943	369-370, 374
Taylor Spink, J G	Hank Greenberg, Back to Colors, Becomes the Hank Gowdy of '41	The Sporting News	Dec 18, 1941	1
Tegmeier, Denis	World War II, Baseball, and the Philadelphia Athletics	The Oakland Athletics 1984 Magazine	1984	20-25, 90, 122
Vanaman, Joyce	A Baseball Legacy: British Writer seeks fate of Millville Baseball Player	Atlantic City Press	Aug 11, 1995	B1
Watson, Leland "Trig"	Baseball Bluejackets: Major League Effort	Great Lakes Bulletin	Mar 31, 1989	---

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