Gary Bedingfield’s Baseball Volume 5 Issue 30 April 2011 in Wartime Baseball Special Issue www.baseballinwartime.com
[email protected] www.baseballinwartime.com in Wartime baseballinwartime.blogspot.com Professional Baseball Players Who Died in World War II t the beginning The Additional 14 Players Who Made the of January 2010 my book Ultimate Sacrifice in World War II “Baseball’s ADead of World War II” was published by JERRY M. ANGELICH McFarland. It was the first ever detailed account of former CLARENCE W. CLAYTON professional baseball players who lost their LESTER O. CLOTIAUX lives while serving with the armed forces during WWII. The book detailed EUGENE L. DELLINGER, JR. the lives of 127 men whose ballplaying careers were halted by JOHN H. FESSLER military service and whose lives were ended in tragic circumstances, TROY L. FURR often thousands of miles from home. At the time of publication I knew the list wasn’t complete. The EUGENE J. GABRYCH majority of the names included in the book I had unearthed myself during my own research; there were no official records to go by. ROBERT J. GRUSS Consequently, since the publication of “Baseball’s Dead of World War II” I have continued to conduct research on this ROBERT F. NIEMAN subject and have now uncovered an additional 14 names, bringing the total number of former ballplayers who died in military service in WWII to a staggering 141. LUSTER PRUETT While I have included these additional players on the Baseball in Wartime website and also the Baseball in Wartime blog, I JAMES G.