Great items, everyone! I'm always fascinated by the military/baseball connection over the decades. Wars over the years affected the sport, slicing years off of many great players' careers. Likewise, baseball was a great diversion and pastime for those heroes who served overseas.
I was expecting to see Richard Simon's great letter from Capt. Hank Greenberg in this fine thread, but he must've missed it up to this point (I might have to shoot him a PM or post his letter myself
).