Posted on Apr 23, 2023
6 Minor Leaguers Who Gave Up Baseball Careers to Become Heroes of World War II
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If you know anything about minor league baseball, you know that those teams are filled with players who are either waiting to get back to their major-league team or those who are working hard every day for their shot at the big time.
It’s hard to overestimate just how important baseball was during the 1940s, and even President Franklin D. Roosevelt believed the game was critical for the country during wartime. Still, baseball players enlisted in droves. For most of them, any kind of wound could end their major-league dreams forever. Some returned to their home field, while others never came home at all.
The website Baseball in Wartime documents the heroism of both major- and minor-league players who risked everything they’d worked for their entire lives so they could serve their country.
It’s hard to overestimate just how important baseball was during the 1940s, and even President Franklin D. Roosevelt believed the game was critical for the country during wartime. Still, baseball players enlisted in droves. For most of them, any kind of wound could end their major-league dreams forever. Some returned to their home field, while others never came home at all.
The website Baseball in Wartime documents the heroism of both major- and minor-league players who risked everything they’d worked for their entire lives so they could serve their country.
6 Minor Leaguers Who Gave Up Baseball Careers to Become Heroes of World War II
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Baseball
WWII World War Two
Heroes
Military History
American History
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel good day Brother William, always informational and of the most interesting. Thanks for sharing, have a blessed day!
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SGM Bill Frazer
Let's see Lady- lived thru the Stock market crash, and the Depression, and fought in WWII, Many professional and minor athletes enlisted along with great actors to fight in the war, then came home- damn little benefits for them and helped rebuild not only America but the world. Oh did I forget, some for thru all of WWII, 39-45 but all fought thru 41-45, no breaks unless convalescing from wounds, then back to war.
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