A World War II Baseball Bibliography

I often get asked what books are available about baseball during World War II. Well, in addition to the two I have written (as well as contributing to "When Baseball Went to War") there are actually quite a few books that cover the war years from different perspectives. Here is a list of most of the books I am aware of, the majority of which I have in my collection.

Allen, Tom E.
If They Hadn’t Gone: How WWII Affected Major League Baseball (Springfield, MO: Missouri State University, 2004)

Anton, Todd
No Greater Love: Life Stories from the Men Who Saved Baseball (Burlington, MA: Rounder, 2007)

Anton, Todd and Nowlin, Bill, eds
When Baseball Went to War (Chicago: Triumph, 2008)

Barthel, Thomas
Baseball Ambassadors Visit WWII Combat Areas (Amazon Digital, 2012)

Bedingfield, Gary
Baseball in World War II Europe (Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 1999)

Bedingfield, Gary
Baseball’s Dead of World War II: A Roster of Professional Players Who Died in Service (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010)

Bement, James
Baseball, Battle and a Bride: An Okie in WWII (Victoria, BC: Trafford, 2009)

Berkow, Ira
The Corporal Was a Pitcher: The Courage of Lou Brissie (Chicago: Triumph, 2009)

Bloomfield, Gary
Duty, Honor, Victory: America’s Athletes in WWII (Guilford, CT: Lyons, 2003)

Bradlee, Ben, Jr.,
The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams (New York: Little, Brown, 2013)

Bullock, Steven R.
Playing For Their Nation: Baseball and the American Military During WWII (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2004)

Cavanaugh, Jack
Season of ’42: Joe D, Teddy Ballgame, and Baseball’s Fight to Survive a Turbulent First Year of War (New York: Skyhorse, 2012)

Cleve, Craig Allan
Hardball on the Home Front: Major League Replacement Players of WWII (Jefferon, NC: McFarland, 2004)

Compton, Lt. Lynn “Buck” and Brotherton, Marcus
Call of Duty (New York: Berkley, 2008)

Creamer, Robert W. 
Baseball and Other Matters in 1941 (Lincoln, NE: Bison, 2000)

Dawidoff, Nicholas
The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg (New York: Vintage, 1995)

Finoli, David
For the Good of the Country: World War II Baseball in the Major and Minor Leagues (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2002)

Gilbert, Bill
They Also Served: Baseball and the Home Front, 1941-1945 (New York: Crown, 1992)

Gilbert, Thomas
Baseball at War: World War II and the Fall of the Color Line (New York: Franklin Watts, 1997)

Gogan, Roger S.
Bluejackets of Summer: The History of the Great Lakes Naval Baseball Team 1942-1945 (Kenosha, WI: Great Lakes Sports Publishing, 2008)

Goldstein, Richard
Spartan Seasons: How Baseball Survived the Second World War (New York: Macmillan, 1980)

Guthrie-Shimizu, Sayuri
Transpacific Field of Dreams: How Baseball Linked the United States and Japan in Peace and War (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina, 2012)

Kashatus, William C.
One-Armed Wonder: Pete Gray, Wartime Baseball, and the American Dream (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1995)

Kelley, Brent
The Pastime in Turbulence: Interviews with Baseball Players of the 1940s (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2001)

Kirkpatrick, Robert J. 
Cecil Travis of the Washington Senators: The War-Torn Career of an All-Star Shortstop (Lincoln, NE: Bison, 2009)

Kiser, Brett
Baseball’s War Roster: A Biographical Dictionary of Major and Negro League Players Who Served, 1861 to the Present (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012)

Marchildon, Phil, with Kendall, Brian
Ace: Phil Marchildon, Canada’s Pitching Sensation and Wartime Hero (Toronto: Penguin, 1994)

Marshall, William
Baseball’s Pivotal Era, 1945-1951 (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1999)

Mead, William B.
Baseball Goes to War (Washington, DC: Farragut, 1985)

Moore, Gary W. 
Playing with the Enemy (New York: Savas Beatie, 2006)

Nowlin, Bill
Ted Williams at War (Burlington, MA: Rounder, 2007)

Obermeyer, Jeff
Baseball and the Bottom Line in WWII: Gunning For Profits On The Home Front (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2013)

Rosengren, John
Hank Greenberg: The Hero of Heroes (New York: New American Library, 2013)

Schacht, Al
G.I. Had Fun (New York: Putnam’s, 1945)

Sickels, John
Bob Feller: Ace of the Greatest Generation (Washington, DC: Potomac Books, 2004)

Silverman, Al
Warren Spahn (New York: Bartholomew House, 1961)

Stout, Glenn
Soldier Athletes [Good Sports] (Boston, MA: HMH, 2011)

Tebbets, Birdie with Morrison, James
Birdie: Confessions of a Baseball Nomad (Chicago, IL: Triumph, 2002)

Terwilliger, Wayne
Terwilliger Bunts One (Guilford, CT: Insider’s Guide, 2006)

Turner, Frederick
When the Boys Came Back: Baseball and 1946 (New York: Henry Holt, 1996)

Van Blair, Rick
Dugout to Foxhole: Interviews with Baseball Players Whose Careers Were Affected by WWII (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1994)

Wakefield, Wanda Ellen
Playing to Win: Sports and the American Military, 1898-1945 (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1997)

Weintraub, Robert
The Victory Season (New York: Little, Brown, 2013)

Wolter, Tim
POW Baseball in World War II: The National Pastime Behind Barbed Wire (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2002)