Prologue: Babe's Yanklands versus the Navy pilots, July 28, 1943 -- Foreword / by Claudia Williams -- Part I--MAY 11, 1943. The "baseball squad" ; The comeback kid ; Ration-league baseball -- Part II- ...
The sky was partly cloudy, 86 degrees outside, a typical mid-summer day in the small upstate New York village of Cooperstown. But the Splendid Splinter was about to shake things up. That day 50 years ...
A little something for baseball fans hungering for the start of this year’s season, truncated though it will be: Baseball Hall of Famer Ted Williams—undeniably one of the greatest hitters in the ...