Baseball in Wartime - Service Games

Service Games in Europe

1942 1943 1944 1945

First American Military Game in Europe in WWII - Northern Ireland - 1942
Date	Location	Result	Winning Team	Losing Team	Highlights
Apr 25, 1942	nr Belfast, N Ireland	14-4	3rd Batt, 133rd Inf Regt	2nd Batt, 133rd Inf Regt	Robert Lange (winning pitcher)

First Officially Recognized American Military Game in N Ireland Since WWI - Northern Ireland - 1942
Date	Location	Result	Winning Team	Losing Team	Highlights
Jul 4, 1942	Belfast, N Ireland	3-2	34th Inf Midwest Giants	1st Armored Kentucky Wildcats	h

Canadian Forces - American Forces - England - 1942
Date	Location	Result	Winning Team	Losing Team	Highlights
Aug 3, 1942	London, England	5-3	Canadian Army	US Army	h

Phil Lowry's Military Marathon Games

20 innings – Goat (later Yerba Buena) Island, San Francisco, California - 9/15/1917 – Oakland Naval Training Station Sailors 1 Oakland Vampires 0 in 3:10.

20 innings – Base Section One, U.S. Army Base, Europe – before 6/18/1919 – U.S. Army Base Section One League – Camp Number Four Base Section 6 Camp Dodge 5.

23 innings – Langley Flying Field, Hampton, Virginia – ?/??/1923 – US Army at US Army Air Force – Fort Monroe Artillerymen 2 Langley Field (later Air Force Base) Birdmen 2.

20 innings – Gowdy Field, Fort Benning, Georgia - 7/30/1927 – Fort Benning Army League – 24th Infantry Blues 3 1st Battalion 29th Infantry 2 in 4:00.

20 innings – Camp McCoy or Whitehall, Wisconsin – 5/10/1942 – US Army vs. Amateur – Camp McCoy 5 Whitehall 4.

21 innings – Third Marine Division (later Trimble) Field, Guam – 5/6/1945 – 41st US Navy Construction Battalion Seabees 2 US Navy Air Base 1 – 1000 fans.

20 innings – Cartier Field, South Bend, Indiana – 7/14/1945 – United States Army Air Force at NCAA – Notre Dame University Fighting Irish 1 Indianapolis Stout Field Airmen 0.

20 innings – Memorial Ball Park, Atwater, California – 8/4/1953 – National Congress - Fort Ord Warriors 2 San Diego Naval Air Station Skyraiders 1 in 4:40 – 3100 fans - finished at 12:55 AM in the early morning of 8/5.

FINISHED AFTER 1 AM – Delta Company Desperados Field ‘Afar, Tell ‘Afar, Iraq - 10/20/2003 – United States Army 101st Airborne Division League – Hunter Marshall’s Team vs. Adam Kamann’s Team.

The above list has been very kindly shared with us by Phil Lowry of Minnetonka, Minnesota. It is a small representation of three lists: every baseball game which has ever lasted 20 or more innings, five or more hours, or ended after 1 AM. 44 years of research have gone into these three lists. Thanks for sharing, Phil.

If you know of any marathon games that have been omitted, please contact Phil Lowry via e-mail at plowry1176@aol.com so that he can update the lists. Thank you.