Ed. notes:
1. This story draws largely from the work cited at www.baseballwartime.com (including the entire table below), for which we acknowledge and applaud their efforts to remember the baseball players who – like many Americans – stopped their chosen careers in the interest of stopping imminent threats to our world during the second World War.
2. By focusing today solely on those serving in WWII, we do not intend to either diminish or denigrate in any way the significant contributions of those serving in the many other conflicts in which our nation has been embroiled.