Play Ball!: Doughboys and Baseball During the Great War

by Peter L. Belmonte, Samuel O Barnes, Alexander F Barnes

Baseball is the most American game. No other sporting contest so closely reflects the American psyche and culture. Its uniqueness comes from the fact that part of the game is clearly defined and unchanged since play first began, while another part of the game fluctuates and changes constantly. And if baseball is the truest American game, the Doughboys of the Great War were its most loyal proponents. By 1918, there were over four million of them: two...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 076435678X
• ISBN13: 9780764356780
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.1"