The game must go on : Hank Greenberg, Pete Gray, and the great days of baseball on the home front in WWII /
"In the early days of WWII, President Roosevelt was faced with a difficult decision: stop all of professional baseball for the good of victory or lose a vital part of morale. Roosevelt's answer saved baseball for generations to come. He decided that THE GAME MUST GO ON. This is the story o...
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New York, N.Y. :
Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press,
2015.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- The green light, 1941. Good-bye, Hank ; Ghost on his shoulder ; Billy and the Kid ; War! ; The green light
- Over the hump, 1942-1944. Earn it ; A new contraption ; Bad check ; Billy's war ; Too tall, too short, too young, too old ; Plasma for the soul ; Time for miracles ; Satisfied to be alive ; Guts of our kids ; Baseball in the ETO ; One man short ; He died on the water ; One arm, one leg, one nation
- Waiting for Hank, 1945. Long-lost hero ; Another war begins ; Waiting for Hank ; As large, as strong, as powerful ; No singing in the shower ; Take that, you fuckin' war ; The comeback kids ; The $300,000 home run
- V-mail.