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Baseball in Wartime Garybed@Gmail.Com Volume 2, Issue 11 Gary Bedingfield’s July 2008 Contact: Baseball in Wartime [email protected] www.baseballinwartime.com Bert Shepard (June 28, 1920 to June 16, 2008) aseball in Wartime extends its Shepard was knocked unconscious and at condolences to the family of Bert 380mph the fighter plane crashed into the Shepard - one of baseball’s true ground. WWII heroes who, perhaps better Bthan anyone, epitomizes what the Baseball in Shortly after the crash landing, First Wartime website is all about. Lieutenant Ladislaus Loidl, a physician in the German Luftwaffe, arrived at the smoking Bert Shepard was born in Dana, Indiana. In wreckage in time to save the injured pilot 1941, the lefthander was pitching with the from a group of irate farmers on whose land Bisbee Bees in the Arizona-Texas League the plane had crashed. where he had a 3-5 won-loss record but was also a useful utility player appearing at first Loidl, with the aid of two armed soldiers, base and in the outfield. drove the farmers away and checked to see if the pilot was still alive. "He was By May 1942, Shepard was in military unconscious, his right leg being smashed, service with the Army Air Force. He served at and he bled from a deep wound on his head," Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana and Daniel recalled Loidl in 1993. "I recognized that the Field, Georgia, in 1942, earning his pilot's man could be saved only with an urgent wings the following year. He crossed the operation. My emergency hospital was not Atlantic to England on the Aquatania to join equipped for that. So I drove the wounded the 55th Fighter Group at Wormingford in man to the local hospital that was headed by early 1944. "From then on it was a lot of a colonel. When [the colonel] refused to flying," Bert told me some years ago. admit the ‘terror flyer’ as he called him, I telephoned the general on duty at the Reich's He did, however, have some time for Air Ministry in Berlin and reported the case. baseball. "In early May, we leveled off a field, Whereupon the general called the colonel laid out a diamond and started practise. Our and settled the matter. Lieutenant Shepard first game was scheduled for Sunday, May was admitted and operated on. A few days 21." later I inquired about his condition and was Senators' owner, Clark Griffith, and asked told that he was doing fine.” him to take a look at the young pitcher. Shepard had already flown 33 missions in his Lockheed P-38J Lightning, and on May 21 Shepard's damaged right leg had to be Shepard arrived at the Senators' camp on - opening day for the 55th Fighter Group amputated 11 inches below the knee. After a March 14. On March 29, he was signed as a baseball season - he volunteered for his 34th long period of recovery he was transferred to pitching coach and pitched four innings mission. While attacking an airfield near the Stalag IX-C prison camp at Meiningen in against the Dodgers in a War Relief Fund Ludwigslust, east of Hamburg, Germany, his central Germany, and with the assistance of game on July 10. On August 5, 1945, he plane was hit by enemy flak with shells Doug Errey - a Canadian medic and fellow made his first and last major league tearing through his right leg and foot. prisoner who crafted a appearance. With the Senators down 14-2 to makeshift artificial leg - the Red Sox, Shepard came in in the fourth Shepard was soon playing inning and struck out the first batter he catch. faced, George "Catfish" Metkovich. He pitched the remainder of the game and In February 1945, Shepard allowed just three hits, one walk and one run. returned to the United States on a prisoner exchange, as Shepard played in the minor leagues until determined as ever to continue 1954 and then took employment as a safety with his baseball career. Whilst engineer with IBM and Hughes Aircraft. at the Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, DC, Shepard met In May 1993, Shepard had an emotional with Under Secretary of War, reunion with Doctor Loidl, the man who had Robert Patterson. When rescued him from the plane wreckage after Patterson asked about his he was shot down. plans for the future, Shepard explained that he wanted to Bert Shepard - major league pitcher, WWII play baseball. Sceptical but hero and icon for all disabled military impressed with the young flier's veterans - passed away on June 16, 2008 at attitude, Patterson contacted a California nursing home. He was 87. Ebbets Field Flannels is the finest manufacturer of vintage historically-inspired athletic clothing. www.ebbets.com Volume 2, Issue 11 Baseball in Wartime Newsletter Page 2 From the Ballfields of New Orleans to the Battlefields of World War II In November 2007, I had the pleasure of attending the “When Baseball Went to War” conference at the World War II Museum in New Orleans. In addition to giving a keynote presentation on players who lost their lives in World War II, I also moderated a panel that explored baseball as a morale builder during the war years. On that panel with me was Johnny Pesky, New Orleans baseball historian Arthur Schott, Nisei Baseball Research Project Director Kerry Nakagawa, Playing with the Enemy author Gary W Moore, and former major league pitcher and New Orleans resident Lenny Yochim. Since that time, Lenny and I have kept in touch and he has shared with me many stories of baseball during the war years. Lenny didn’t serve in the military during World War II - he was too young. But his brother, Ray, who went on to pitch for the St Louis Cardinals, served with the Marine Corps and pitched for the Navy All-Stars in the Pacific. Also attending the conference was Pete Parisi from Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania. Pete served with the US Navy in New Orleans during the war and played baseball for the New Orleans in the 1940s Algiers Naval Station team during the He was the favorite maybe because he was possibly been deferred because of a hernia summer of 1943. strong, he was a little wild, he could take operation. He wanted to be in the war.” care of himself. I looked up to him as a What follows is a collaboration of the person, and surely as a ballplayer.” However, military service didn’t mean the memories of Lenny and Pete along with end of his playing days. In fact, far from it, other related items that tell the story of The Cardinals had optioned Ray to Ray didn’t even get to finish boot camp baseball during the war years from a very Sacramento of the Pacific Coast League who, because the Marine Corps Base at San Diego personal viewpoint. in turn, assigned him to Fresno. Ray posted a record of two wins and a loss with Fresno, It’s a humid afternoon in Santa Barbara, having worked 29 innings in five games, California in late June 1941, and 18-year-old before being sold to the Springfield Cardinals rookie pitcher Ray Yochim, smiles as he of the Class C Western Association – another walks off the mound enjoying the applause St Louis farm team that needed pitching. from 1,300 fans. Ray, who had only recently joined the visiting Fresno Cardinals of the Ray finished the year with a 7-7 record for S Gisclair Courtesy of Derby California League, has just held the Santa Springfield and began the 1942 season with Barbara Saints to three hits in the second his hometown New Orleans Pelicans of the game of a double-header. The 10-0 win is Class A1 Southern Association, where he Fresno’s 16th consecutive and clinches the won two games without a loss before being first-half pennant of the Class C circuit. assigned to the Columbus Red Birds of the Class B South Atlantic League. The Red Birds Ray, one of eight children, had signed with struggled all season to get out the basement the St Louis Cardinals organization in 1941 in the Sally League and Ray finished with a 3- after graduating from Samuel J Peters High 15 record and 4.65 ERA. School in his hometown of New Orleans. “He was mamas special,” recalls Lenny. “All the The 20-year-old right-hander had little time to others in the family had to use oleo. That was reflect on his losing record as military service margarine with yellow bean mixed in to make beckoned and the next three years would be it look like butter. Ray got the real thing, spent with the Marine Corps. “I was very butter, real butter. None of us had any proud to see that [Ray] enlisted in the qualms that he was getting better treatment. Marines,” recalls Lenny. “He could have Ray Yochim with the Columbus Red Birds www.baseballinwartime.com/database.htm Volume 2, Issue 11 Baseball in Wartime Newsletter Page 3 From the Ballfields of New Orleans to the Battlefields of World War II needed a pitcher and he spent the summer Jackson Barracks (on the east bank of the months making a name for himself in the Mississippi) and the 781st Railway Depot. 11th Naval District League. The Coast Guard – with future National League pitcher Al Jurisich - was represented One of Ray’s toughest outings was against by the Coast Guard Station at New Orleans. the Santa Ana Army Air Base team, led by Joe DiMaggio.
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