Moore, Gary W.

Playing with the Enemy: A Baseball Prodigy, a World at War, and a Field of Broken Dreams

Val Laolagi Place_Pub: New York: Savas Beatie, 2006. 301, illus., small tear and some creasing to bottom of DJ spine. Foreword by Jim Morris. The author's father, Gene Moore, was recruited by the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1940 at fifteen years old, but his baseball dream was cut short when the United States entered World War II. Gene enlisted in the U.S. Navy to play baseball on the Navy team; in 1944, guarding German sailors captured from U-505 in 1944, Gene taught the enemy how to play baseball. Condition: very good, good.

Keywords: WWII, U.S. Navy, Naval, Brooklyn Dodgers, Val Laolagi

ISBN: 1932714243

[Book #52687]

Price: $27.50