Thank you Veterans. Honor the Military Veterans on cardboard.

[bn2cardz]

Thank you to those that served in our Military. I thought it would be nice to see those who served in the Military that appear on a baseball card. Show yours, and if you don't have any to show but were in the Military speak up.

For a list of military veterans in baseball:
http://www.baseballinwartime.com/index.htm

I know there are a lot of well known players so I thought I would start it off with a couple of lesser known that share the same card:

Buddy Lewis and Max West:




Buddy Lewis (http://www.baseballinwartime.com/pla...ewis_buddy.htm)
Rank: Captain
Military Unit: 1st Air Commando Group, USAAF
Area Served: China-Burma-India Theater of Operations

Max West
(http://www.baseballinwartime.com/pla...s/west_max.htm)
Rank: Corporal
Military Unit: US Army Air Force
Area Served: Pacific Theater of Operations

[RichardSimon]

Time for my Hank Greenberg ALS again.
A wonderful man, a great player and a veteran.

[bn2cardz]

According to the Bio for Buddy Lewis, he was stationed with Greenberg

"He [Buddy Lewis] spent 18 months in the CBI Theater where he occasionally ran into Hank Greenberg."

Hank Greenberg
(http://www.baseballinwartime.com/pla...nberg_hank.htm)
Rank: Captain
Military Unit: 20th Bomber Command, United States Army Air Force
Area Served: China-Burma-India Theater of Operations

[dog*dirt]

Here is a link for the SABR bio of Hank Gowdy.

http://sabr.org/bioproj/person/afac3842

[bn2cardz]

Interesting tidbit about Hank Gowdy:

"Hank Gowdy holds the distinction of being the only active major leaguer (a player during WWI and a coach during WWII) to serve with the armed forces in both World Wars."

Rank: Major
Military Unit: US Army
Area Served: United States
http://www.baseballinwartime.com/pla...gowdy_hank.htm

[jbsports33]

Thank you for your service!

Jimmy