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Thank you Veterans. Honor the Military Veterans on cardboard.
Thank you to those that served in our Military. I thought it would be nice to see those who served in the Military that appear on a baseball card. Show yours, and if you don't have any to show but were in the Military speak up.
For a list of military veterans in baseball: http://www.baseballinwartime.com/index.htm I know there are a lot of well known players so I thought I would start it off with a couple of lesser known that share the same card: Buddy Lewis and Max West: Buddy Lewis (http://www.baseballinwartime.com/pla...ewis_buddy.htm) Rank: Captain Military Unit: 1st Air Commando Group, USAAF Area Served: China-Burma-India Theater of Operations Max West (http://www.baseballinwartime.com/pla...s/west_max.htm) Rank: Corporal Military Unit: US Army Air Force Area Served: Pacific Theater of Operations
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Time for my Hank Greenberg ALS again.
A wonderful man, a great player and a veteran.
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According to the Bio for Buddy Lewis, he was stationed with Greenberg
"He [Buddy Lewis] spent 18 months in the CBI Theater where he occasionally ran into Hank Greenberg." Hank Greenberg (http://www.baseballinwartime.com/pla...nberg_hank.htm) Rank: Captain Military Unit: 20th Bomber Command, United States Army Air Force Area Served: China-Burma-India Theater of Operations
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Interesting tidbit about Hank Gowdy:
"Hank Gowdy holds the distinction of being the only active major leaguer (a player during WWI and a coach during WWII) to serve with the armed forces in both World Wars." Rank: Major Military Unit: US Army Area Served: United States http://www.baseballinwartime.com/pla...gowdy_hank.htm
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Thank you for your service!
Jimmy
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Helped start up the Air Force...
After a distinguished career in the Army Air Forces, Audie Murphy helped Hap Arnold and Tooey Spatz lead the charge to create the US Air Force in 1947. Audie was also in some movies, and was featured in the first ever series of Topps cards in 1948. So even though he didn't play baseball (to my knowledge), he goes back to the early days of card collecting.
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Kaiser
Kaiser served in WWI. On the American side, in spite of his nickname.
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Thank you to all Veterans for all you have done and continue to do for us all.
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Benny Leonard, US Army:
Barney Ross, USMC
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Ted Williams
Marine Fighter Pilot......WWII and Korea
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Mickey Vernon was in the Navy during the 1944 & 1945 seasons - this is from his SABR bio:
"Shortly after the 1943 season ended, Vernon was inducted into the Navy. He spent the next two years as a sailor, serving some of the time in Honolulu and the South Pacific, where he was part of a traveling baseball team, made up mostly of major leaguers, that played before crowds of 10,000 to 12,000 troops. At one point, Mickey also ran softball and basketball leagues. One of the players especially attracted his attention. He was a 20-year-old sailor named Larry Doby. The two became close friends, and later Mickey helped Doby became the American League’s first African American player. Vernon spent 1944 and 1945 in the service." |
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Hodges
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Battle of the Bulge where he had frostbite and winner of the Bronze Star:
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Lt. Colonel Jerry Coleman
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When they made the war movies about LT Murphy, they had to scale back his actions as they were too unbelievable to make a movie out of!
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