GILBERT, Bill.
They Also Served: Baseball and the Home Front, 1941-1945.
"We're fighting for a lot of things in this war, and baseball is one of them": First edition of Bill Gilbert's They Also Served; Signed by 23 Wartime Players
New York: Crown Publishers, 1992.
$950.00
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Item Number: RRB-92477
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First edition of Gilbert's work on the wartime players who served the nation during World War II. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Signed by 23 of those players on the front free endpaper and title page including: Vic Lombardi, Preacher Roe, Bob Feller, Buddy Hassett, ‘Frenchy’ Bordagaray, Tommy Brown, Hal Newhouser, Cy Buker, Marty Marion, and many others. Fine in a fine dust jacket. A very sharp example illustrating a unique piece of American history.
They Also Served documents the nostalgic history of those who kept major-league baseball alive for America throughout the second world war during which civilians ineligible to serve became big-time players and drafted players became war heroes. "A lively evocation of the days when the comforting ritual of baseball was an oasis in a chaotic world" (Heywood Hale Brown).
They Also Served: Baseball and the Home Front, 1941-1945.
$950.00
Out of Stock