The Cloudbuster Nine: The Untold Story of Ted Williams and the Baseball Team That Helped Win World War II

by Anne R. Keene

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1683583620
• ISBN13: 9781683583622
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Sports Publishing LLC
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 8.9"