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    Who's on First: Replacement Players in World War II

    By Bill Nowlin

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    This is a book about baseball’s true “replacement players.”

    During the four seasons the U.S. was at war in World War II (1942-1945), 533 players made their major-league debuts. There were 67 first-time major leaguers under the age of 21 (Joe Nuxhall the youngest at 15 in 1944). More than 60 percent of the players in the 1941 Opening Day lineups departed for the service. The 1944 Dodgers had only Dixie Walker and Mickey Owen as the two regulars from their 1941 pennant-winning team.

    The owners brought in not only first-timers but also many oldsters. Hod Lisenbee pitched 80 innings for the Reds in 1945 at the age of 46. He had last pitched in the major leagues in 1936. War veteran and former POW Bert Shepard, with an artificial leg, pitched in one game for the 1945 Senators, and one-armed outfielder Pete Gray played for the St. Louis Browns.

    The war years featured firsts and lasts. The St. Louis Browns won their first (and last) pennant in 1944 — a feat made more amazing by the fact that they had not finished in the first division since 1929. The 1944 team featured 13 players classified as 4-F. The Chicago Cubs appeared in the 1945 World Series but have not made it back since.

    In addition to player biographies, a chapter on each team in wartime in included. Some 53 members of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) have contributed to this volume. We invite you to sit back and relax as you learn Who's on First?

    Includes contributions by: Alan Cohen, Ashlie Christian And Armand Peterson, Bill Nowlin, Bob Brady, Bob Lemoine, Bob Mayer, Bob Webster, Charles Faber, Charlie Weatherby, Chris Rainey, Cort Vitty, David Finoli, David M. Jordan, David Raglin And Barb Mantegani, David W. Pugh, Don Zminda, Duke Goldman, Greg Erion, Gregg Omoth, Gregory H. Wolf, J. G. Preston, James D. Smith, Iii, Jay Hurd, Jeff Marlett, Jeff Obermeyer, Jim Sweetman, Joanne Hulbert, John Shannahan, Leslie Heaphy, Lyle Spatz, Marc Lancaster, Marc Z Aaron, Mark S. Sternman, Mel Marmer, Merrie A. Fidler, Michael Huber, Michael Huber And Rachel Hamelers, Mike Mcclary, Peter C. Bjarkman, Rex Hamann, Rich Bogovich, Richard Cuicchi, Richard Moraski, Rory Costello And Lou Hernández, Seamus Kearney, Sidney Davis, Steve Smith, Thomas Ayers, Tom Hawthorn, Walter Leconte

    Partial Table of Contents:
    The Business of BaseballDuring World War II
    “But Where is Pearl Harbor?” Baseball and the Day the World Changed, December 7, 1941
    The Tri-Cornered War Bond Baseball Game

    NATIONAL LEAGUE
    Boston Braves
    Ben Cardoni
    Buck Etchison
    Butch Nieman
    Mystery Member of the ‘45 Braves

    Brooklyn Dodgers
    John “Fats” D’Antonio
    Bill Hart
    Lee Pfund

    Chicago Cubs
    Jorge Comellas
    Billy Holm
    Walter Signer

    Cincinnati Reds
    Tomás de la Cruz
    Buck Fausett
    Dick Sipek

    New York Giants
    Al Gardella
    Frank Seward
    Roy Zimmerman

    Philadelphia Phillies
    Chet Covington
    Hilly Flitcraft
    Lee Riley

    Pittsburgh Pirates
    Xavier Rescigno
    Len Gilmore
    Frankie Zak

    St. Louis Cardinals
    Jack Creel
    Gene Crumling
    Bob Keely

    AMERICAN LEAGUE

    Boston Red Sox
    Otey Clark
    Ty LaForest
    Stan Partenheimer
    The Frostbite League: Spring Training 1943-45
    The 1944 Red Sox: What Could Have Been

    Chicago White Sox
    Vince Castino
    Guy Curtright
    Floyd Speer

    Cleveland Indians
    Otto Denning
    Jim McDonnell
    Mickey Rocco

    Detroit Tigers
    Chuck Hostetler
    Bobby Maier
    Charlie Metro

    New York Yankees
    Joe Buzas
    Mike Garbark
    Bud Metheny

    Philadelphia Athletics
    Orie Arntzen
    Jim Tyack
    Woody Wheaton

    St. Louis Browns
    Milt Byrnes
    Charley Fuchs
    Pete Gray

    Washington Senators
    Ed Butka
    Jug Thesenga
    Tony Zardón
    Senators Who Died in Combat

    OTHER ESSAYS
    The All-Star Games in the War Years
    Wartime Baseball:

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSociety for American Baseball Research
    Release dateMar 19, 2015
    ISBN9781933599908
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    Who's on First: Replacement Players in World War II
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    Bill Nowlin

    BILL NOWLIN confesses to have left Game Three of the 2004 ALCS before it was over - due to a 13-year-old son at home with a friend. But since the 1950s he has attended countless Red Sox games at a place he often calls his "second home." He waited 59 years to see the Sox win it all. He is one of the founders of Rounder Records; the one Hall of Fame into which he was inducted is the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame. He has written and edited many books, mostly on baseball and mostly for SABR, but has not gone far in life - he lives in Cambridge, maybe 10 miles from where he was born in Boston.

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