Cloudbuster Nine: The Untold Story of Ted Williams and the Baseball Team That Helped Win World War II
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In 1943, while the New York Yankees and St. Louis Cardinals were winning pennants and meeting in that year’s World Series, one of the nation’s strongest baseball teams practiced on a skinned-out college field in the heart of North Carolina. Ted Williams, Johnny Pesky, and Johnny Sain were among a cadre of fighter pilot cadets who wore the Cloudbuster Nine baseball jersey at an elite Navy training school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In this spirited Field of Dreams-insipred father-daughter account, author Anne R. Keene opens with a story about her father, Jim Raugh, who suited up as the team batboy and mascot. He got to know his baseball heroes personally, watching players hit the road on cramped, tin-can buses, dazzling factory workers, kids, and service members at dozens of games, including a war-bond exhibition against Babe Ruth’s team at Yankee Stadium. Jimmy followed his baseball dreams as a college All-American, but was crushed later in life by a failed major league bid with the Detroit Tigers. He would have carried this story to his grave had Anne not discovered his scrapbook from a Navy school that shaped America’s greatest heroes, including George H. W. Bush, Gerald Ford, John Glenn, Paul “Bear” Bryant, and John Wooden. With the help of rare images and insights from World War II MLB baseball veterans such as Dr. Bobby Brown and Eddie Robinson, the story of this remarkable team is brought to life for the first time in The Cloudbuster Nine: The Untold Story of Ted Williams and the Baseball Team That Helped Win World War II.
Publisher : Sports Publishing
Publication date : April 21, 2020
Edition : 1st
Language : English
Print length : 408 pages
ISBN-10 : 1683583620
ISBN-13 : 978-1683583622
Item Weight : 1.08 pounds
Dimensions : 6 x 1.2 x 9 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #8,618 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #1 in Sports Essays (Books) #11 in Baseball (Books) #53 in World War II History (Books)
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In 1943, while the New York Yankees and St. Louis Cardinals were winning pennants and meeting in that year’s World Series, one of the nation’s strongest baseball teams practiced on a skinned-out college field in the heart of North Carolina. Ted Williams, Johnny Pesky, and Johnny Sain were among a cadre of fighter pilot cadets who wore the Cloudbuster Nine baseball jersey at an elite Navy training school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In this spirited Field of Dreams-insipred father-daughter account, author Anne R. Keene opens with a story about her father, Jim Raugh, who suited up as the team batboy and mascot. He got to know his baseball heroes personally, watching players hit the road on cramped, tin-can buses, dazzling factory workers, kids, and service members at dozens of games, including a war-bond exhibition against Babe Ruth’s team at Yankee Stadium. Jimmy followed his baseball dreams as a college All-American, but was crushed later in life by a failed major league bid with the Detroit Tigers. He would have carried this story to his grave had Anne not discovered his scrapbook from a Navy school that shaped America’s greatest heroes, including George H. W. Bush, Gerald Ford, John Glenn, Paul “Bear” Bryant, and John Wooden. With the help of rare images and insights from World War II MLB baseball veterans such as Dr. Bobby Brown and Eddie Robinson, the story of this remarkable team is brought to life for the first time in The Cloudbuster Nine: The Untold Story of Ted Williams and the Baseball Team That Helped Win World War II.
Publisher : Sports Publishing
Publication date : April 21, 2020
Edition : 1st
Language : English
Print length : 408 pages
ISBN-10 : 1683583620
ISBN-13 : 978-1683583622
Item Weight : 1.08 pounds
Dimensions : 6 x 1.2 x 9 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #8,618 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #1 in Sports Essays (Books) #11 in Baseball (Books) #53 in World War II History (Books)
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