Baseball

Fred came back to the United States after the War in the Pacific to reward himself with a pair of baseball cleats. One of the most interesting periods in United States sport history is the period between 1942 and 1945 when professional baseball played an important role on the home front and around the world. With the entry of the United States into the Second World War, baseball teams endured tremendous short-term changes. Many baseball stars such as Hank Greenberg, Joe DiMaggio, Bob Feller, and Ted Williams were drafted or volunteered for military service. In most cases, those stars became players for army or navy baseball teams that played to entertain service personnel. Others, like Bob Feller, found themselves in the midst of combat against the Japanese or the Germans.