How many major league ballplayers died serving their country in World War II?

On this Memorial Day, I awoke early, wondering how many major league baseball players lost their lives in the service of their country. The son of a World War II veteran, I was most curious about that conflict, and a Google search quickly pointed me to the Baseball in Wartime site. The site reveals that […]

A Memorial Day tribute to those who gave their lives

This is Memorial Day 2009, and we pay tribute to those who gave their lives in service of their country. I have only a few military caps, including this one that I picked up some time ago in the waning years of Naval Air Station Alameda. It’s from the USS Abraham Lincoln, which used to […]

MLB special caps for Memorial Day

One of my regular reads is the Uniwatch blog, which features the “obsessive study of athletic aesthetics.” I was casting about this morning for a Memorial Day weekend theme and encountered this Uniwatch post about the red caps ball clubs will be wearing to honor the nation’s war dead. That’s a red, white & Brewers […]