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Jim Leeke
The Gas and Flame Men tells how chemical warfare changed the course of World War I, war in general, and the game of baseball-with famous players stepping away from the…
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The story of meteorologist Wallace E. Howell’s work as New York City’s only official rainmaker, hired to seed clouds in the hopes of breaking the city’s 1950 drought. –
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In the spring of 1864, after three bloody years of civil war, victory seemed within reach for the Northern armies. John Brought, Ohio’s energetic wartime governor, offered his state’s militia…
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Baseball, 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…
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…
Jim Leeke tells the little-known history of Grover Cleveland Alexander and fellow athletes in the 342nd Field Artillery Regiment during the Great War.
This is the first detailed account of the historic race for long-distance flight records between the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy after World War II.
Presents carefully selected, and annotated, articles about major-leaguers serving at home and overseas in the US armed forces during World War I. Some continued to play ball in the military…
