If They Hadn't Gone: How World War II Affected Major League Baseball

by Thomas E. Allen

If They Hadn't Gone is an encyclopedia of biographical and statistical information covering 472 baseball players whose careers were affected by war. Its lists include brief biographies and lifetime stats for replacement-players who, before Pearl Harbor, would have been over-the-hill or below major-league quality. But, in war or in peace, baseball was the American pastime. Writing early in 1942, President Roosevelt urges Kenesaw M. Landis (then...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0974819026
• ISBN13: 9780974819020
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Moon City Press
• Length: 392 Pages