| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.1

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Playing for Their Nation: Baseball and the American Military during World War II. By Steven R. Bullock. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. xiv, 183 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-8032-1337-9.)
Professional baseball has survived many crises, including scandals and wars. World War II profoundly impacted professional baseball. Although President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued a proclamation encouraging the continuation of major league baseball, a vast majority of the nation's professional baseball players served in World War II.	1
Previous books have examined the national pastime during World War II. Richard Goldstein, Spartan Seasons (1980), William Mead, Baseball Goes to War (1985), and Bill Gilbert, They Also Served (1992) described how major league baseball struggled with draft rejects, old-timers, and teenagers. William Kashatus, One-Armed Wonder (1995), featured the one-armed player Pete Gray, and Louis Kaufman et al., Moe Berg (1974), featured the player-scholar-spy Moe Berg. Robert Creamer's Baseball in '41 (1991) celebrated one of major league baseball's greatest seasons. These books, however, highlighted major leaguers still active during the war.	. . .

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