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  • Big Loosh

    The Unruly Life of Umpire Ron Luciano

    by Jim Leeke ...
    Finalist for the 2025 CASEY AwardRon Luciano was a college football star, baseball umpire, TV broadcaster, and best-selling author. He barged through the world with an outsized personality, entertaining many, offending a few, and hiding behind a cheerful and outrageous persona until life somehow proved unbearable. Everyone knew him, but nobody really did.Once an All-American tackle at Syracuse ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Howell's Storm

    New York City's Official Rainmaker and the 1950 Drought

    by Jim Leeke ...
    More than half a century ago, New York City suffered from a drought that lasted through 1949 and into 1950. By February, the desperate city had to try something different. Mayor William O'Dwyer hired a municipal rainmaker.Dr. Wallace E. Howell was an inspired choice. The handsome, thirty-five-year-old Harvard-educated meteorologist was the ideal scientist—soft spoken, modest, and articulate. No ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Gas and Flame Men

    Baseball and the Chemical Warfare Service during World War I

    by Jim Leeke ...
    When the United States officially entered World War I in 1917, it was woefully underprepared for chemical warfare, in which the British, French, and Germans had been engaged since 1915. In response, the U.S. Army created an entirely new branch: the Chemical Warfare Service. The army turned to trained chemists and engineers to lead the charge—and called on an array of others, including baseball ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Best Team Over There

    The Untold Story of Grover Cleveland Alexander and the Great War

    by Jim Leeke ...
    Finalist for the 2022 SABR Seymour MedalGrover Cleveland Alexander was one of the greatest pitchers in baseball history, with 373 career victories during twenty seasons in the Major Leagues. Elected into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1938, the right-hander remains a compelling—and tragic—figure. “Pete” Alexander’s military service during World War I was the demarcation line between his ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • From the Dugouts to the Trenches

    Baseball during the Great War

    by Jim Leeke ...
    2018 SABR Baseball Research Award WinnerBaseball, like the rest of the country, changed dramatically when the United States entered World War I, and Jim Leeke brings these changes to life in From the Dugouts to the Trenches. He deftly describes how the war obliterated big league clubs and largely dismantled the Minor Leagues, as many prominent players joined the military and went overseas. By the ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Ballplayers in the Great War

    Newspaper Accounts of Major Leaguers in World War I Military Service

    by Jim Leeke ...
    Series Book 14 - The McFarland Historical Baseball Library
    This volume presents carefully selected, and annotated, articles about major-leaguers serving at home and overseas in the U.S. armed forces during World War I. Some continued to play ball in the military. Others fought the Germans in the trenches, in the air and at sea. Several lost their lives in combat or to disease. A few became heroes. From future Hall of Famers to journeymen and unknowns, ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • The Turtle and the Dreamboat

    The Cold War Flights That Forever Changed the Course of Global Aviation

    by Jim Leeke ...
    The ‘Turtle’ and the ‘Dreamboat’ is the first detailed account of the race for long-distance flight records between the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy less than fourteen months after World War II. The flights were risky and unprecedented. Each service intended to demonstrate its offensive capabilities during the dawning nuclear age, a time when America was realigning its military structure and preparing ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Nine Innings for the King

    The Day Wartime London Stopped for Baseball, July 4, 1918

    by Jim Leeke ...
    On a sunny Fourth of July during World War I, King George V went out to a ball game. Along with Queen Mary and other royalty, Winston Churchill, dozens of VIPs, thousands of troops and ordinary Londoners, the monarch cheered an extraordinary "baseball match" between American soldiers and sailors. This historic event helped solidify the transatlantic alliance that was vital to winning the war.The ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

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    The Gas and Flame Men

    Baseball and the Chemical Warfare Service during World War I

    by Jim Leeke ...
    Narrated by Barry Abrams ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 16 min

    The Gas and Flame Men is the first full account of Major League ballplayers who served in the Chemical Warfare Service during World War I. Four players, two club executives, and a manager served in the small and hastily formed branch, six of them as gas officers. Remarkably, five of the seven—Christy Mathewson, Branch Rickey, Ty Cobb, George Sisler, and Eppa "Jeptha" Rixey—are now enshrined in the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Battlefields

    The Chicago White Sox and the Great War

    by Jim Leeke ...
    A fascinating examination of how World War I impacted the Chicago White Sox and led to the infamous Black Sox scandal.All sixteen clubs in Major League Baseball faced challenges and obstacles during World War I, the Chicago White Sox more so than many. Though owner Charles Comiskey supported military preparedness throughout the American League in 1917, the team was soon losing players to the war ... Read more

    $27.39 USD