Who's on First: Replacement Players in World War II

by Mark Aaron

This is a book about baseball's true "replacement players."



During the four seasons the U.S. was at war in World War II (1942-45), 533 players made their major-league debuts. There were 67 first-time major leaguers under 21 (Joe Nuxhall the youngest at 15). More than 60 percent of the players in the 1941 Opening Day lineups departed for the service. The 1944 Dodgers had only Dixie Walker and Mickey Owen from their 1941 pennant-winning...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 193359991X
• ISBN13: 9781933599915
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Society for American Baseball Research
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.5" x 11.0"