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The Best Team Over There - The Untold Story of Grover Cleveland Alexander and the Great War (Hardcover)
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The Best Team Over There - The Untold Story of Grover Cleveland Alexander and the Great War (Hardcover)
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Finalist for the 2022 SABR Seymour Medal Grover Cleveland Alexander
was one of the greatest pitchers in baseball history, with 373
career victories during twenty seasons in the Major Leagues.
Elected into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1938, the
right-hander remains a compelling-and tragic-figure. "Pete"
Alexander's military service during World War I was the demarcation
line between his great seasons with the Philadelphia Phillies and
his years of struggle and turmoil with the Chicago Cubs and the St.
Louis Cardinals after the Great War. Indeed, Alexander's service
during World War I has all but been forgotten, even though it
dramatically changed his life-and his game. Alexander served in the
342nd Field Artillery Regiment, which included big leaguers and
star athletes among its officers and men. Naturally, the regiment
fielded an outstanding baseball team, but it also faced hard
service during the final weeks of the war. After the armistice in
November 1918, the unit undertook occupation duty in Germany. The
Best Team Over There examines this crucial period closely: where
Alexander was stationed, how he was trained, how he withstood the
effects of combat and shelling, how he interacted with his fellow
athletes and soldiers, and how the war changed his baseball career,
revealing for the first time the little-known details of this
critical stage in the legendary pitcher's life and career. We can't
truly understand Alexander and his enduring appeal to baseball fans
without also understanding his life as a gunner and soldier.
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