Player Biographies

Having researched wartime baseball for more than a decade, I have accumulated a vast amount of information on many of the men who served with the military and played baseball in some capacity. I have decided that the best way to display this information is in an alphabetic format by player name.

You will find players of all calibres here - major leaguers, minor leaguers, college players, high school players and sandlot ballplayers. But they all have one thing in common - they love baseball and, somehow, found time to play ball while serving with the military.

If you are looking for information on a particular player then let me know and I will gladly see what I have.

Major League     Minor League   Negro League  Semi-Pro     Amateur     College

 

Hall of Famers

Click on player's name to read their biography

 

Name

Service

Location

Luke Appling	US Army	USA
Al Barlick	US Coast Guard	USA
Yogi Berra	US Navy	ETO/MTO
Nestor Chylak	US Army	ETO
Mickey Cochrane	US Navy	Pacific
Leon Day	US Army	ETO
Bill Dickey	US Navy	Pacific
Joe DiMaggio	US Army Air Force	Pacific
Larry Doby	US Navy	Pacific
Bobby Doerr	US Army	USA
Bob Feller	US Navy	Atlantic/Pacific
Charlie Gehringer	US Navy	USA
Hank Greenberg	US Army Air Force	CBI
Billy Herman	US Navy	Pacific
Monte Irvin	US Army	ETO
Ralph Kiner	US Navy	Pacific
Bob Lemon	US Navy	Pacific
Ted Lyons	US Marine Corps	Pacific
Johnny Mize	US Navy	Pacific
Stan Musial	US Navy	Pacific
Pee Wee Reese	US Navy	Pacific
Phil Rizzuto	US Navy	Pacific
Robin Roberts	US Army Air Force	USA
Jackie Robinson	US Army	USA
Red Ruffing	US Army Air Force	USA
Red Schoendienst	US Army	USA
Enos Slaughter	US Army Air Force	Pacific
Duke Snider	US Navy	Pacific
Warren Spahn	US Army	ETO
Ted Williams	US Navy/US Marine Corps	USA
Early Wynn	US Army	ETO

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