What's New!

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