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"There were 13 Hall of Famers in Hawaii during the war" I had an absolute blast talking to Author and former Enfield Spartans player Gary Bedingfield on the show this week, it was one where time got the better of us, but theres definite room for another show soon.  Gary talks us through how his dad played in bands at airbases after the war and getting interested in baseball, Gary started the Enfield Spartans as a 12 year old with local kids in 1976 as the Enfield Chiefs and how it grew and developed into a championship winning team, baseball being more important than a career and how baseball stayed part of his life, learning to play via books and the struggles to get equipment, playing in junior leagues and playing on US air bases against other kids, who he learned the most from, GB Days, the importance of knowing your team mates, what he misses about playing, how he started writing about baseball and military history, "Lefty" Brewer of the Washington Senators, MLB not doing anything to remember pro players killed in the war, how he goes about researching and writing, PLUS his new book Baseball in Hawaii during world war 2 (which can be found here:  https://www.amazon.co.uk/Baseball-Hawaii-During-World-War-ebook/dp/B094963G9H/ref=sr_1_6?dchild=1&amp;keywords=gary+bedingfield&amp;qid=1629462376&amp;sr=8-6  and much more

"There were 13 Hall of Famers in Hawaii during the war" I had an absolute blast talking to Author and former Enfield Spartans player Gary Bedingfield on the show this week, it was one where time got the better of us, but theres definite room for another show soon.  Gary talks us through how his dad played in bands at airbases after the war and getting interested in baseball, Gary started the Enfield Spartans as a 12 year old with local kids in 1976 as the Enfield Chiefs and how it grew and developed into a championship winning team, baseball being more important than a career and how baseball stayed part of his life, learning to play via books and the struggles to get equipment, playing in junior leagues and playing on US air bases against other kids, who he learned the most from, GB Days, the importance of knowing your team mates, what he misses about playing, how he started writing about baseball and military history, "Lefty" Brewer of the Washington Senators, MLB not doing anything to remember pro players killed in the war, how he goes about researching and writing, PLUS his new book Baseball in Hawaii during world war 2 (which can be found here:  <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Baseball-Hawaii-During-World-War-ebook/dp/B094963G9H/ref=sr_1_6?dchild=1&amp;keywords=gary+bedingfield&amp;qid=1629462376&amp;sr=8-6" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.co.uk/Baseball-Hawaii-During-World-War-ebook/dp/B094963G9H/ref=sr_1_6?dchild=1&amp;keywords=gary+bedingfield&amp;qid=1629462376&amp;sr=8-6</a>  and much more

On this week's episode of SABRcast Rob Neyer is joined by baseball historian Gary Bedingfield. Along with a discussion of Gary's extensive research into the players who served in the military during World War Two, the pair discuss the baseball played by these servicemen during their time away from the big leagues. Then SABR CEO Scott Bush joins the show to discuss who won the weekend. For show notes, extra content, and a list of what Rob's reading, visit the SABRcast website at https://sabr.org/sabrcast.

On this week's episode of SABRcast Rob Neyer is joined by baseball historian Gary Bedingfield. Along with a discussion of Gary's extensive research into the players who served in the military during World War Two, the pair discuss the baseball played by these servicemen during their time away from the big leagues. Then SABR CEO Scott Bush joins the show to discuss who won the weekend. For show notes, extra content, and a list of what Rob's reading, visit the SABRcast website at <a href="https://sabr.org/sabrcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://sabr.org/sabrcast</a>.

Episode 115: Gary Bedingfield: The War and the Game

In our Episode 104 with David Hubler &amp; Josh Drazen, we examined the existential crisis faced by organized baseball during the first half of the 1940s, when America's heightened involvement in World War II threatened to shut down pro leagues entirely as the country focused its attention elsewhere.   While President Roosevelt's now-famous "Green Light Letter" to MLB Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis on January 15, 1942 ensured the game would continue unimpeded Stateside, hundreds of major-league and thousands of minor-league players soon found themselves drafted into, or even volunteering for active wartime duty abroad - including some of baseball's biggest stars of the era, like Joe DiMaggio, Pee Wee Reese, Ted Williams, and Stan Musial.   Baseball-in-wartime expert Gary Bedingfield ("Baseball in Hawaii During World War II") joins the 'cast to discuss the travails of these professional players across the war's Pacific and European theaters, who balanced combat-related "day jobs" with surprisingly competitive military league play - especially in Hawaii, where many of the game's best found themselves stationed at one point or another.

In our <a href="https://goodseatsstillavailable.com/listen/2019/3/16/episode-104-big-league-baseball-in-wwii-wartime-washington-with-david-hubler-amp-josh-drazen" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Episode 104</a> with David Hubler &amp; Josh Drazen, we examined the existential crisis faced by organized baseball during the first half of the 1940s, when America's heightened involvement in World War II threatened to shut down pro leagues entirely as the country focused its attention elsewhere.   While President Roosevelt's now-famous "Green Light Letter" to MLB Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis on January 15, 1942 ensured the game would continue unimpeded Stateside, hundreds of major-league and thousands of minor-league players soon found themselves drafted into, or even volunteering for active wartime duty abroad - including some of baseball's biggest stars of the era, like Joe DiMaggio, Pee Wee Reese, Ted Williams, and Stan Musial.   Baseball-in-wartime expert Gary Bedingfield ("<a href="https://amzn.to/2T1rnyU" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Baseball in Hawaii During World War II</a>") joins the 'cast to discuss the travails of these professional players across the war's Pacific and European theaters, who balanced combat-related "day jobs" with surprisingly competitive military league play - especially in Hawaii, where many of the game's best found themselves stationed at one point or another.