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Toy Cannon · 05-30-2005, 04:14 PM

Players who served America in times of war.

Elmer Glen Myers was born in York Springs in 1894. A letter to a Philadelphia newspaper in 1916 by J. Harvey Neely states that Elmer's father was the village blacksmith and that "the muscles on the budding flinger's right arm were developed by pounding the anvil."

At 6 feet 3 inches tall "Big Jim" soon became the pitching star for the York Springs Social Club, earning many wins while playing with teammates Tom Cashman, Raymond Starry, Norman Starry, Ralph Lischy, Jim Myers, Oscar Howe, Chester Albert, W. Roy Starry, J. Harvey Neely, William Grove, Harry Hardman, and Harry Plank ("Gettysburg Eddie's" cousin) and managed by Charles Griest.

The lanky youngster was scouted by Philadelphia Athletics manager Connie Mack and signed to a professional contract in the fall of 1913. Mack decided that the hard-throwing pitcher needed additional ex-perience and shipped him to Raleigh, NC, the next spring to pitch for a minor league team managed by Mack's son Earl. "Big Jim" won 19 games in the Carolina Association that year. Myers remained with Raleigh through the 1915 season until Earl notified his father, Connie, that the hard throwing right-hander was ready for the "big-time." His big league debut that fall came against the Washington Senators. Elmer pitched a complete game two-hitter and struck out a dozen hitters, a first game record that stood for another 40 years.

It was Elmer's fate to hurl for a proverbial tail-ender in the years he wore the A's uniform. The rival Federal League had raided Mack's World Champion Athletics of many of their stars, including Eddie Plank. The following 1916 season, Elmer was a workhorse for the woeful A's, starting 35 games and pitching 31 complete games. Although hurling 315 innings and compiling a commendable 3.66 ERA, Myer's win/loss record was only 14-23, but his strength and stamina impressed rival Detroit Tiger manager Hughie Jennings who dubbed Myers the "Iron Man" after Myers pitched three consecutive complete game victories in seven days for the lowly A's that year. Despite pitching for a losing team, Myers pitched 38 games in 1917 and 18 games in 1918 before he was drafted for World War I duty.

It was an attack of German "mustard" gas, unleashed in the Verdun sector occupied by American Expeditionary Forces late in 1918, which blasted what might have been a remarkable baseball career. Tragedy broke into Elmer's life with the Armistice but a few months away. A stretcher-bearer attached to Evacuation Hospital No. 15, near Verdun, Myers was "gassed in action" two months after he was sent up to the front lines.

Myers spent weeks in hospitals behind the lines recuperating from the effects of the gas. That winter he was traded by Manager Mack to the Cleveland Indians. Returning to the States and joining the Indians in June, Myers defeated the New York Yankees 1-0 in his Indian debut. But the effects of the "gassing" began to take their toll. With the A's before the war, Myers had weighed 200 pounds. He dropped to 160 pounds and with the weight loss came the loss of his fast ball. Myers participated in 23 games for the Indians, winning 8 and losing 7. Starting 2-4 the next season, he was traded to the Red Sox where he created a sensation by winning nine straight games. The after-effects of the gas though, continued to plague the weakened Myers. He would manage to hang on for two more seasons with the Red Sox, going 9-13 before his poor health forced him from the Major Leagues.

Hoping to regain his strength and pitching form, Myers asked the Red Sox to assign him to Salt Lake City in the Pacific Coast League, figuring the high and dry altitude would help him in his battle for health. He would spend the 1922 and 1923 seasons in Salt Lake City before joining the Los Angeles team for two seasons. Still trying grimly to regain his form and health, Myers pitched for Knoxville, TN, in the South Atlantic League in 1926 and 1927 before finishing his professional career in organized baseball in 1928 with Columbus of the American Association, ironically just as the Mack Men of Philadelphia were regaining the baseball prominence that had abandoned them with the departure of "Gettysburg Eddie" years before.

In nine major league seasons Myers had pitched in 185 games, starting 127 times. He completed 78 games, pitching over 1100 innings, and compiling a win-loss record of 55-72. While not a Hall of Fame member like the more famous Eddie Plank, Adams County native Elmer "Big Jim" Myers had been to "The Big Show" and had made his mark.

With his baseball career over, Elmer returned to the Philadelphia area where he drove a truck and sold meat products for a New Jersey packing house. He operated a concession stand on the boardwalk in Atlantic City for a few years before taking up residence in Collingswood, NJ, where he operated a tavern on the Black Horse Pike for a number of years. "Big Jim" never forgot his York Springs roots, returning often to visit with family members and reminisce with his old team- mates from the York Springs Social Club. According to family members, Elmer was an avid hunter and enjoyed stalking deer in Adams County. He was particularly close to his boyhood friend, W. Roy Starry, known in the old days as "Jack" and later as "Prof." In 1975 the Philadelphia Phillies honored the old Philadelphia baseball and war hero, "Big Jim" Myers, with a day at Veterans Stadium. Myers died the next year and is today buried in the Myers burial plot in Sunnyside Cemetery in York Springs.

Toy Cannon · 05-30-2005, 04:18 PM

Eddie Grant was a typical Deadball Era third baseman: mediocre offensively (as attested by his lifetime .249 batting average and .295 slugging percentage) but defensively reliable, particularly against the bunt. "As a batter [Grant] was noted for his ability to sacrifice," remembered Mike Donlin, "and he could lay back near third base and still throw out the fastest runners after they had bunted." In his playing days "Harvard Eddie" was best known for his Ivy League diplomas. In an era when most of his teammates played poker while traveling by train, the intellectual Grant generally could be found smoking his pipe and reading a book. Today, however, he is remembered as the most prominent major leaguer killed in combat during World War I (others include one-gamers Bun Troy and Alex Burr, both of whom were killed in France within a week of Grant).

Edward Leslie Grant was born on May 21, 1883, in Franklin, Massachusetts, 30 miles south of Boston. After graduating from the public high school in 1901, Eddie spent a post-graduate year at Dean Academy in Franklin before matriculating at Harvard College in the fall of 1902. That year he distinguished himself as the freshman basketball team's top scorer and, according to the Harvard Crimson, "a valuable team man and excellent left-handed batter" for the freshman baseball team. As a sophomore Eddie played varsity basketball and tried out for varsity baseball, but before the first game he was declared ineligible for having received money playing in an independent league the previous summer. With intercollegiate competition no longer an option, he joined his class team and spent the summer with St. Albans of Vermont's outlaw Northern League.

Returning to Cambridge in the fall of 1904, Grant carried a heavy course load with the intention of graduating a year early and enrolling in law school. Though ambitious, Eddie was a mediocre student at Harvard, earning an average grade of slightly above C. Classmates described him as quiet, thoughtful, unassuming, and serious. In athletics, however, he stood out a bit more. Again he played class baseball-earning a spot on the 1905 All Leiter Team, Harvard's intramural all-star team-and joined the semi-pro Milford club in Lynn, Massachusetts, as soon as school ended. That summer, in addition to fulfilling his degree requirements, Eddie got his first taste of organized baseball-at the major league level, no less. In early August the Cleveland Naps were in Boston, but Napoleon Lajoie was laid up with an infected leg. The best local substitute the Naps could find was Eddie Grant, who filled in at second base and collected three hits in his big league debut.

For the next three years Grant attended Harvard Law School during offseasons and played professional baseball during summers. While with Jersey City in 1906, his first full season in organized ball, Eddie led the Eastern League with a .322 average. That mark earned him a shot with the Philadelphia Phillies, for whom he split time with Ernie Courtney in 1907 before taking over as the regular third baseman in 1908. During the offseason of 1908-09 Grant received his law degree and was admitted to the Massachusetts bar, and for the rest of his baseball career he practiced law in Boston during the winter months.

Grant enjoyed his finest big league season in 1909, batting .269 as Philadelphia's leadoff hitter and finishing second in the National League with 170 hits. Before a doubleheader against the New York Giants that year, he supposedly found a domino with seven white spots. As the story goes, after joking with teammates that the domino was an omen that he would have seven hits that day, Eddie went five-for-five against Christy Mathewson in the first game, then batted safely in his first two at-bats against Rube Marquard in the nightcap. The seven consecutive hits were believed to be an N.L. record, but Eddie remained modest. "I didn't get another hit off Matty all season," he recalled. Grant put up similar numbers for Philadelphia in 1910, when one commentator called him "perhaps the best-hitting third baseman in the National League, barring Bobby Byrne of the Pittsburgs."

The 1910 season proved to be the apex of Grant's career. In February 1911 he was sent to Cincinnati in the trade that brought Hans Lobert and Dode Paskert to the Phillies. For the Reds, Eddie slumped to a .223 average in his final season as a regular and improved only slightly to .239 as a part-timer in 1912. Many attributed his sudden decline to a tragedy in his personal life. Eddie had married Irene Soest in Philadelphia in 1911, but she died of heart trouble less than nine months after the wedding. The Giants purchased Grant in the midst of the 1913 season. Eddie played sparingly as New York captured its third consecutive pennant, and that fall he participated in his only World Series, appearing as a pinch-hitter and pinch-runner. He held on for two more seasons as John McGraw's bench coach and seldom-used utilityman. Before spring training in 1916 Eddie announced his retirement, intending to devote himself to his Boston law practice. He was 32 years old.

Grant's career as a full-time lawyer lasted barely one year. When the United States declared war on Germany on April 6, 1917, he became the first major leaguer to enlist (Hank Gowdy was the first active major leaguer). After four months of officer training in Plattsburg, New York, Grant was commissioned as captain of Company H of the 307th Infantry Regiment and sent to Camp Upton on Long Island for several months of training with the troops he would lead. Arriving in France as part of the American Expeditionary Forces, Grant's division saw some combat before being assigned to the Meuse-Argonne offensive, the final great American drive of the war.

On October 2, 1918, the 307th Regiment launched an attack in the Argonne Forest, a rugged, heavily wooded area with thick underbrush, deep ravines, and marshes. By the morning of the third day, October 5, Eddie Grant was exhausted. He hadn't slept since the beginning of the offensive, and some fellow officers noticed him sitting on a stump with a cup of coffee in front of him, too weak to lift the cup. One of his troops, a former policeman at the Polo Grounds, remembered: "Eddie was dog-tired but he stepped off at the head of his outfit with no more concern than if he were walking to his old place at third base after his side had finished its turn at the bat. He staggered from weakness when he first started off, but pretty soon he was marching briskly with his head up." Later that day the 307th was moving forward when Major Jay, as he was carried past on a litter, ordered Captain Grant, the highest-ranking officer left in his battalion, to assume command. The major had hardly spoken when a shell came through the trees, wounding two of Grant's lieutenants. Eddie was waiving his hands and calling out for more stretcher bearers when a shell struck him. It was a direct hit, killing him instantly.

Eddie Grant was buried in the Argonne Forest, only a few yards from where he fell. Later his remains were moved to the Romagne Cemetery. A monument in Grant's honor was unveiled at the Polo Grounds on Memorial Day 1921, and a highway in the Bronx, a baseball field at Dean Academy (now Dean Junior College), and two American Legion posts still bear his name.

Toy Cannon · 05-30-2005, 05:08 PM

In 1941, 20-year-old Dodgers farmhand Tommy Tatum batted .347 in the Southern Association. Then he spent three full seasons in the service, suffered a serious arm injury, and after the war never got back to where he was.

From 1941 through 1943, Cardinals right-hander Howie Krist won 34 games and lost only eight as a reliever and spot starter. But serving with the Army in 1944, he suffered a leg injury in Europe, spent most of 1945 in a hospital, and pitched poorly after returning to the majors in 1946.

Toy Cannon · 05-30-2005, 05:10 PM

MEMBERS OF THE BASEBALL HALL OF FAME WHO SERVED IN THE ARMED SERVICES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA DURING WARTIME

Civil War
Morgan Bulkeley, Army

World War I
Grover Cleveland Alexander, Army
Happy Chandler, Army
Oscar Charleston, Army
Ty Cobb, Army
Eddie Collins, Marines
Jocko Conlan, Navy
Red Faber, Navy
Warren Giles, Army
Burleigh Grimes, Navy
Harry Heilmann, Navy
Waite Hoyt, Army
George Kelly, ArmyAir
Larry MacPhail, Army
Rabbit Maranville, Navy
Rube Marquard, Navy
Christy Mathewson, Army
Herb Pennock, Navy
Sam Rice, Army
Branch Rickey, Army
Eppa Rixey, Army
Bullet Joe Rogan, Army
Joe Sewell, Army
George Sisler, Army
Tris Speaker, Navy
Casey Stengel, Navy

World War II
Luke Appling, Army
Al Barlick, Coast Guard
Yogi Berra, Navy
Nestor Chylak, Army
Mickey Cochrane, Navy
Leon Day, Army
Bill Dickey, Navy
Joe DiMaggio, ArmyAir
Larry Doby, Navy
Bobby Doerr, Army
Bob Feller, Navy
Charlie Gehringer, Navy
Hank Greenberg, ArmyAir
Billy Herman, Navy
Monte Irvin, Army
Ralph Kiner, Navy
Bob Lemon, Navy
Ted Lyons, Marines
Larry MacPhail, Army
Lee MacPhail, Navy
Johnny Mize, Navy
Stan Musial, Navy
Pee Wee Reese, Navy
Phil Rizzuto, Navy
Robin Roberts, Army
Jackie Robinson, Army
Red Ruffing, ArmyAir
Red Schoendienst, Army
Enos Slaughter, ArmyAir
Duke Snider, Navy
Warren Spahn, Army
Bill Veeck, Marines
Hoyt Wilhelm, Army
Ted Williams, Marines
Early Wynn, Army

Korea
Ernie Banks, Army
Whitey Ford, Army
Eddie Mathews, Navy
Willie Mays, Army
Ted Williams, Marines

Toy Cannon · 05-30-2005, 05:36 PM

Christy Mathewson of the New York Giants, as popular in his time as any other athlete of any other time, was poisoned by mustard gas while on active service in France in World War One. Never again healthy, he died of tuberculosis seven years later.

Toy Cannon · 05-30-2005, 05:41 PM

1918: HARRY ACTON (DAYTON / CENTRAL LEAGUE)....................DIED FROM INFLUENZA INDUCED PNEUMONIA WHILE SERVING AT CAMP SHERMAN, OHIO ON 10/12/1918

1918: ALEX BURR (YANKEES / AL)....................KILLED WHEN THE PLANE HE WAS FLYING CRASHED INTO A LAKE ON 10/12/1918 AT CAZAUX,,FRANCE

1918: LARRY CHAPPEL CHI (AL) / CLE / (AL) / BOS / (NL)....................DIED FROM INFLUENZA INDUCED PNEUMONIA WHILE SERVING IN THE US ARMY MEDICAL CORP. IN SAN FRANCISCO, CA

1918: JOHN C. COOPER (30) (FORMER WHITE SOX MINOR LEAGUER)....................K.I.A. IN ACTION ON 9/2/1918

1918: HARRY M. GLENN (23) (St. LOUIS / AL)....................DIED FROM INFLUENZA INDUCED PNEUMONIA WHILE SERVING AT THE US ARMY AVIATION SCHOOL AT St. PAUL, MN

1918: CAPT. EDDIE GRANT CLE (AL) / PHI (NL) / CIN (NL) / NY (NL)....................K.I.A. IN THE ARGONNE FOREST WHILE ON A RESCUE MISSION TO SAVE THE LOST BATTALION

1918: SGT. FRANK HEALEY (31) (WESTERN ASSOCIATION UMPIRE)....................DIED FROM INFLUENZA WHILE SERVING IN THE US ARMY AT FORT RILEY, KANSAS IN OCTOBOER OF 1918

1918: JOHN W. INGLIS (WILKESBARRE / NY STATE LEAGUE) (NEWBURG / NEW YORK -NEW JERSEY LEAGUE)....................DIED FROM INFLUENZA WHILE SERVING IN THE US NAVY AT THE PELHAM BAY PARK NAVAL TRAINING STATION ON 10/7/1918

1918: RALPH SHARMAN (PHILADELPHIA / AL)....................DROWNED AT CAMP SHERIDAN, ALABAMA

1918: BUNN TROY (DETROIT / AL)....................KILLED IN ACTION AT PETIT MAUJOUYM,,FRANCE ON 10/7/1918

Toy Cannon · 05-30-2005, 05:45 PM

1942: BILLY HEBERT (OAKLAND / PCL)....................KILLED IN ACTION IN W.W.II

1942: GORDON HOUSTON (MINOR LEAGUER / TEXARKANA).........................KILLED IN ACTION IN W.W.II

1942: JACK PATTESON (MINOR LEAGUER: A BASEBALL FIELD WAS DEDICATED TO HIS MEMORY)....................KILLED IN ACTION ON GUADALCANAL WHILE SERVING WITH THE USMC

1942: GENE STACK (WHITE SOX MINOR LEAGUER)....................DIED ON THE MOUND FROM A HEART ATTACK WHILE PITCHING FOR HIS ARMY TEAM ON A MICHIGAN CITY BALLFIELD

1943: S. Sgt. HERMAN BAUER (MINOR LEAGUE CATCHER FROM 1938-41)....................KILLED IN ACTION IN EUROPE

1943: FRED BEAL (MINOR LEAGUER FROM 41-42)....................DIED IN AN ARMY HOSPITAL AT CAMP WHITE, OREGON ON 2/11/1943

1943: ENSIGN MERRILL BROWN (21) (MINOR LEAGUER)....................DIED IN A PLANE CRASH IN JACKSONVILLE, FL

1943: ROBERT BURNS (SEMI PRO MANAGER)....................KILLED IN ACTION IN W.W.II

1943: Lt. HAROLD DOBSON (28) (MINOR LEAGUER FROM 1941-42)....................KILLED IN AN ARMY AIR FORCE PLANE CRASH IN ENGLAND

1943: Pvt. FRANK FAUDEM (23) (MINOR LEAGUER)....................KILLED IN ACTION AT LEYTE GULF

1943: ELMER GEDEON (26) (WASHINGTON / AL)....................KILLED IN ACTION OVER St.POL FRANCE AS A MEMBER OF THE 394th BOMBER GROUP

1943: Lt. ALAN GRANT (MINOR LEAGUER FROM 1939-42)....................KILLED IN A PLANE CRASH AT VICTORYVILLE, CALIFORNIA ON 5/23/1943

1943: Lt. JOHN MULLER (MINOR LEAGUER)....................KILLED IN ACTION IN THE PACIFIC IN SEPTEMBER OF 1943 WHILE SERVING AS AN ARMY AIR FORCE PILOT

1943: Pfc. EDWARD SCHOHL (MINOR LEAGUER: 1933-41)....................DIED FROM WOUNDS SUFFERED IN ITALY ON 11/1/1943

1943: MARSHALL SNEED (MINOR LEAGUER / TOPEKA)....................KILLED IN ACTION IN W.W.II

1943: LEWIS VARANESE (Lou Vann) (31) (MINOR LEAGUER: 1933-39)....................KILLED IN ACTION IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC WHILE SERVING WITH THE USMC ON 5/18/1943

1943: GEORGE ZWILLING (AMATEUR)....................KILLED IN ACTION IN W.W.II

1944: LOUIS ALBERIGO (SEMI-PRO PLAYER).........................KILLED IN ACTION AT NORMANDY

1944: FORREST BREWER (MINOR LEAGUER / CHARLOTTE)....................KILLED IN ACTION AT NORMANDY WHILE SERVING WITH THE 82nd AIRBORN

1944: ORDWAY CISGEN (MINOR LEAGUER / UTICA)....................KILLED IN ACTION IN W.W.II

1944: RENE CROTEAU (SEMI-PRO PLAYER)....................KILLED IN ACTION SEVING WITH THE 82nd AIRBORN DURING WII

1944: HOWARD DeMARTINI (MINOR LEAGUER / JACKSONVILLE)....................KILLED IN ACTION IN W.W.II

1944: FRANK DRAPER (SEMI-PRO PLAYER)....................KILLED IN ACTION AT NORMANDY

1944: AVIATION CADET ROBERT GARY (MINOR LEAGUER)....................DIED AT BRIGGS FIELD, TX ON 2/5/1944

1944: CONRAD GRAFF (?) (MINOR LEAGUER)....................KILLED IN ACTION IN WORLD WAR II

1944: Pfc. ERNIE HROVATIC (20) (MINOR LEAGUER FOR TWO YEARS)....................KILLED IN ACTION IN BELGIUM ON 1/14/1944

1944: JOHN JUDEFIND (AMATEUR)....................KILLED IN ACTION WHILE SERVING WITH THE 82nd AIRBORN DURING W.W.II

1944: ARDYS KELLER (MINOR LEAGUER / TOLEDO....................KILLED IN ACTION WHILE SERVING WITH THE 82nd AIRBORN DURING WII

1945: LESTER KIRKKALA (MINOR LEAGUER / TOLEDO)....................KILLED IN ACTION IN FRANCE IN W.W.II

1944: Lt. STAN KLORES (27) (BASEBALL COACH AT NORTHWESTERN)....................KILLED IN ACTION WHEN THE US DESTROYER COOPER WAS SUNK BY THE JAPANEESE

1944: JOE LAKEY (AMATEUR)....................KILLED IN ACTION WHILE SERVING WITH THE 82nd AIRBORN DURING W.W.II

1944: Lt. WALTER LOOS (27) MINOR LEAGUER: 1939-41)....................LOST ON AIR TRANSPORT COMMAND FLIGHT 117

1944: WILLIAM MALONEY (AMATEUR)....................KILLED IN ACTION WHILE SERVING WITH THE 82nd AIRBORN DURING W.W.II

1944: ELMER MERTZ (AMATEUR)....................KILLED IN ACTION IN W.W. II

1944: JOHN OGDEN (21) (HELPED OPERATE ELMIRA BASEBALL CLUB)....................KILLED IN ACTION DURING WWII

1944: METRO PERSOSKIE (23) (MINOR LEAGUER: 1939-42)....................DIED OVER ENGLAND WHILE RETURNING FROM A BOMBING MISSION (15th) OVER GERMANY

1944: CHARLES EDWARD PERCOD (MINOR LEAGUER: 1937-43)....................KILLED IN ACTION IN FRANCE

1944: JOE PINDER / CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENT (MINOR LEAGUE PITCHER FROM 1935-1941)....................KILLED IN ACTION ON OMAHA BEACH ON JUNE 6TH, 1944

1944: MARTIN SALTZGAVER (AMATEUR)....................KILLED IN ACTION IN W.W.II

1944: Tech. MICHAEL SAMBOLICH (22) (MINOR LEAGUER)....................KILLED IN ACTION ON 11/5/1944

1944: ROBERT C. SCHMUKAL (UNDER CONTRACT BY BOSTON BRAVES)....................KILLED IN ACTION IN IN FRANCE 10/1944

1944: DON SHELTON (SEMI-PRO)....................KILLED IN ACTION IN W.W.II

1944: Lt. SYLVESTER STURGES (MINOR LEAGUER FROM 1929-41)....................KILLED IN ACTION DURING THE NORMANDY INVASION ON JUNE 6TH, 1944 WHILE SERVING AS A PARATROOP SHIP PILOT

1944: JOHN TAYLER (MINOR LEAGUER: 1938-41)....................KILLED IN ACTION IN AUGUST OF 1944 WHILE SERVING WITH THE USMC

1944: WIRT TWITCHELL (MINOR LEAGUE 1st BASEMAN FROM 1938-41)....................KILLED IN ACTION ON SAIPAN WHILE SERVING WITH THE USMC

1944: ARTHUR VIVIAN (MINOR LEAGUER / NEWARK BEARS)....................KILLED IN ACTION IN W.W.II

1944: ROMAN WANTUCK (MINOR LEAGUER IN 1941)....................KILLED IN ACTION IN THE PACIFIC IN OCTOBER OF 1944

1944: S. Sgt. JAMES WHITFIELD (24)....................KILLED IN ACTION IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC IN SEPTEMBER OF 1943

1944: ELMER WRIGHT (MINOR LEAGUER / SAN ANTONIO)....................KILLED IN ACTION AT OMAHA BEACH

1944: MARION YOUNG (22) (MINOR LEAGUER: 1941-42)....................KILLED IN ACTION IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC ON 12/13/1944

1945: WILLIAM FASH (29)....................KILLED IN ACTION FROM AN EXPLOSION ABOARD THE CARRIER JOHN HANCOCK

1945: WILLIAM HANSEN (?) (MILWAUKEE: AMERICAN ASSOCIATION)....................KILLED IN ACTION IN BELGIUM

1945: MANUEL HERNANDEZ (MINOR LEAGUER / SAN DIEGO (PCL))....................KILLED IN ACTION IN GERMANY WHILE A MEMBER OF THE 367 INF. DIV IN W.W.II

1945: Lt. ROBERT HOLMES (22)(YANKEES MINOR LEAGUER)....................KILLED IN ACTION ON IWO JIMA

1945: HARRY IMHOFF (19) (BALTIMORE ORIOLES CATCHER)....................KILLED IN ACTION ON OKINOWA

1945: HENRY MARTINEZ (28) (7 YEAR MONOR LEAGUER)....................KILLED IN ACTION IN CENTRAL PACIFIC

1945: Lt. JOHN McKEE (34) (MINOR LEAGUER: COLUMBUS / ATLANTA)....................KILLED IN ACTION IN BELGIUM

1945: GEORGE MYERS (21) (MINOR LEAGUER)....................KILLED IN ACTION IN BELGIUM

1945: PVT. WILLIAM NIEMEYER (24) (CUBS MINOR LEAGUER)....................KILLED IN ACTION IN GERMANY

1945: HENRY NOWAK (MINOR LEAGUER / NEW ORLEANS)....................KILLED IN ACTION IN BELGIUM 1/1/1945

1945: WALTER NAVIE (MINOR LEAGUER / SHREVEPORT)....................KILLED IN ACTION IN W.W.II

1945: HARRY O'NEILL (PHILADELPHIA / AL)....................KILLED IN ACTION ON IWO JIMA

1945: LT. HAROLD G. PHILLIPS (CATCHER IN THE PIEDMONT LEAGUE)....................DIED IN THE CRASH OF AN ARMY AIRFORCE PLANE IN ROUTE BACK FROM A SEMI-PRO BASEBBALL TOURNAMENT IN TEXAS

1945: ROBERT PRICE (26) (MINOR LEAGUER: CATCHER/FIRST BASEMAN)....................KILLED IN ACTION AT SEA

1945: ERNIE RAIMONDI (24) (7 YEAR MINOR LEAGUER)....................KILLED IN ACTION IN ITALY

1945: WILLIAM SARVER (MINOR LEAGUER / AUGUSTA)....................KILLED IN ACTION IN W.W.II

1945: 2ND Lt. FRANKLIN SCHULZ (MINOR LEAGUER / FLINT)....................KILLED IN ACTION ON SOMUR ON 6/17/45

1945: BILLY SOUTHWORTH JR. DFC/AIR MEDAL (27) (MINOR LEAGUER / TORONTO)....................B-29 SUPERFORTRESS BOMBER CRASH AT LaGUARDIA AIRPORT IN NYC

1945: SGT. EARL SPRINGER (26) (1940 BALTIMORE ORIOLES)....................KILLED IN ACTION ON 1/25/1945

1945: JIM TRIMBLE (WASHINGTON NATIONALS MINOR LEAGUER)....................KILLED BY A JAP SUICIDE BOMBER ON IWO JIMA

1945: S. SGT. ELMER WACHTLER (26) (CARDINALS MINOR LEAGUER)....................KILLED IN ACTION IN BELGIUM

1945: CPL. PETER ZARILA (KNOXVILLE SMOKIES: SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION)....................DIED IN THE CRASH OF AN ARMY AIRFORCE PLANE IN ROUTE BACK FROM A SEMI-PRO BASEBBALL TOURNAMENT IN TEXAS

1946: ROD SOOTER (MINOR LEAGUER / SEATTLE)....................PLANE CRASH

Toy Cannon · 05-30-2005, 05:51 PM

1950: PVT. EDWARD C. LENEVE USMC (CUBS MINOR LEAGUER / VISALIA, CA)....................KILLED IN ACTION ON 12/2/1950

1951: WILLIAM EDWARD CRAGO (21) (DUBLIN: GEORGIA STATE LEAGUE)....................KILLED IN ACTION IN KOREA

1951: PVT. LEONARD GLICA (22) (MINOR LEAGUER)....................KILLED IN ACTION ON 5/26/1951 WHILE SERVING WITH THE 21st INFANTRY REGIMENT, 24th INFANTRY DIVISION

1951: PVT. RAYMOND HENRY JANKOWSKI (22) (CARDINALS MINOR LEAGUER)....................INJURIES SUFFERED AT FORT HUACHUCA, AZ

1951: Cpl JOHN LAZAR (BROWNS MINOR LEAGUER)....................KILLED IN ACTION ON 9/7/1951

1951: Sgt MARCEL POELKER (23) (MINOR LEAGUER)....................KILLED IN ACTION ON 9/25/1951

1951: Lt. CAROL SWEIGER (23) (MINOR LEAGUER)....................KILLED IN ACTION ON 10/4/1951

1952: BOB NEIGHBORS (St.LOUIS / AL).....................M.I.A. / PRESUMED DEAD DURING THE KOREAN WAR

1952: ERWIN ADAMCEWIEZ (23) (CARDINALS MINOR LEAGUER).....................DIED FROM WOUNDS RECEIVED IN KOREA ON 11/21/1952

1952: JOHN HRASCH (24) (SHORTSTOP FOR NEW ORLEANS).....................CALLED INTO SERVICE IN '52 / KILLED IN AN AUTO ACCIDENT AT CAMP PICKETT ON 9/18/1952

1952: Sa. JAMES R. HUDGENS US NAVY (22) (SAN JOSE / PCL).....................KILLED IN ACTION APRIL 21, 1952

1952: PFC WALTER KOEHLER (25) (GREENSBORO, NC CLUB).....................KILLED IN ACTION ON 7/28/1952

1952: FRED TSCHUDIN (29) (MINOR LEAGUE CATCHER / MANAGER).....................KILLED IN AIR FORCE TRAINING PLANE ACCIDENT ON 3/14/1952

1952: PVT. CHARLES WILCOX US ARMY (ANDERSON, INDIANA CLUB).....................KILLED IN ACTION 9/8/1952

1952: JACK LEONARD (22) (MINOR LEAGUER).....................M.I.A. / PRESUMED DEAD DURING THE KOREAN WAR

1952: PVT CARL D. TUMLINSON (DODGERS MINOR LEAGUER).....................KILLED IN ACTION 4/7/1953

1953: Lt. GEORGE C. REEDON (23) (TERRE HAUTE: THREE I LEAGUE)....................KILLED IN A PLANE CRASH AT PANAMA CITY, FL IN DECEMBER OF 1953

Toy Cannon · 05-30-2005, 05:52 PM

1968: UDELL CHAMBERS (BRAVES MINOR LEAGUER).....................KILLED IN A ROCKET ATTACK NEAR DaNANG, REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM ON 6/1/1968 WHILE SERVING IN THE U.S. ARMY

1968: CHARLES CHASE (TWINS MINOR LEAGUER).....................KILLED IN ACTION IN JUNE OF 1968

1970: EDDIE GLINNEN (21) (GIANTS MINOR LEAGUE PROSPECT)....................DIED IN HOSPITAL IN VIETNAM FROM WOUNDS SUFFERED IN COMBAT WHILE A MEMBER OF CO.B, 2ND BN (Mech), 2nd INF, 1st INFANTRY DIVISION