Baseball in Wartime - Player Biographies (Amateur)

Amateur Player Biographies

Having researched wartime baseball for more than a decade, I have accumulated a vast amount of information on many of the men who served with the military and played baseball in some capacity. I have decided that the best way to display this information is in an alphabetic format by player name.

You will find players of all calibres here - major leaguers, minor leaguers, college players, high school players and sandlot ballplayers. But they all have one thing in common - they love baseball and, somehow, found time to play ball while serving with the military.

If you are looking for information on a particular player then let me know and I will gladly see what I have.

Major League Minor League Negro League Semi-Pro Amateur College

Hall of Famers

Amateur

Click on player's name to read their biography

* denotes lost their life in WWII

Name

Experience

Service

Location

Harold Banker	Amateur	OSS	Unknown
Jack Bonvillian	Amateur	US Army	ETO
Jim Bowen	Amateur	US Army	ETO
Ralph Busson	Amateur	US Army	ETO
Alex Cairns	Amateur	Canadian Army	ETO
William Dagon	Amateur	US Army	ETO
Joe Gradisher	Amateur	USAAF	ETO
Joe Gubernot	Amateur	US Army	ETO
Ray Kush	Amateur	USAAF	ETO
Robert Marsico	Amateur	US Army	ETO
Don Richardson	Amateur	US Army	ETO/MTO/Pacific
Lester Rodney	Amateur	US Army	Pacific
Bill Rowell	Amateur	US Army	ETO
Elmer Schlueter	Amatuer	US Navy	Pacific