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Book Title
Gas and Flame Men : Baseball and the Chemical Warfare Service During World War I
Publication Name
The Gas and Flame Men
Title
The Gas and Flame Men
Subtitle
Baseball and the Chemical Warfare Service during World War I
ISBN-10
1640126058
EAN
9781640126053
ISBN
9781640126053
Publisher
Potomac Books, Incorporated
Format
Hardcover
Release Year
2024
Release Date
01/02/2024
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Length
9.1 in
Author
Jim Leeke
Genre
Sports & Recreation, History
Topic
Baseball / History, Military / World War I, Military / Biological & Chemical Warfare
Publication Year
2024
Item Weight
19 Oz
Item Width
6.2 in
Number of Pages
256 Pages

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Potomac Books, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1640126058
ISBN-13
9781640126053
eBay Product ID (ePID)
15058805635

Product Key Features

Book Title
Gas and Flame Men : Baseball and the Chemical Warfare Service During World War I
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2024
Topic
Baseball / History, Military / World War I, Military / Biological & Chemical Warfare
Genre
Sports & Recreation, History
Author
Jim Leeke
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
19 Oz
Item Length
9.1 in
Item Width
6.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
"Jim Leeke scores again with The Gas and Flame Men , delivering a fascinating account of America's World War I response to German chemical warfare and the important part a group of Major League Baseball stars and other key sports figures played in it."--Rick Huhn, author of The Chalmers Race: Ty Cobb, Napoleon Lajoie, and the Controversial 1910 Batting Title That Became a National Obsession, "To steal a baseball term, The Gas and Flame Men is an out-of-the-park grand slam. No one knows more than Jim Leeke about the intersection of America's national pastime and the Great War. A wonderful story you won't want to put down."--Mitchell Yockelson, author of Forty-Seven Days: How Pershing's Warriors Came of Age to Defeat the German Army in World War I, "Historian Leeke . . . offers a meticulous and informative account of the Chemical Warfare Service, an army unit hastily formed when the U.S. entered WWI to catch up to the conflict's extensive reliance on new weapons like flamethrowers and poison gas. . . . [ The Gas and Flame Men is] an enjoyable and distinctive blend of war story and sports chronicle. It will appeal especially to baseball history buffs."-- Publishers Weekly, "An extraordinary chronicle of both military history and baseball history. . . . A choice pick for baseball enthusiasts, as well as public and college library history collections."--Paul T. Vogel, Midwest Book Review, "Readers who enjoy military literature or baseball books will want a copy of this book."-- Guy who Reviews Sports Books, "Christy Mathewson, Ty Cobb, Eppa Rixey, and Branch Rickey--all members of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Gas and Flame Men during the Great War. Jim Leeke knows the connection between baseball and the war better than anybody. He'll keep you turning pages as he tells their stories, and more."--Jan Finkel, 2012 recipient of SABR's Bob Davids Award
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Table Of Content
List of Illustrations 1. Nashville 2. Gabby 3. Frightfulness 4. Winter 5. Good Scout 6. CWS 7. France 8. Summer 9. Final Innings 10. Shipping Out 11. Autumn 12. Coignes 13. Homecomings 14. Saranac Lake 15. Cooperstown Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index
Synopsis
When the United States officially entered World War I in 1917, it was woefully underprepared for chemical warfare, in which the British, French, and Germans had been engaged since 1915. In response, the U.S. Army created an entirely new branch: the Chemical Warfare Service. The army turned to trained chemists and engineers to lead the charge--and called on an array of others, including baseball players, to fill out the ranks. The Gas and Flame Men is the first full account of Major League ballplayers who served in the Chemical Warfare Service during World War I. Four players, two club executives, and a manager served in the small and hastily formed branch, six of them as gas officers. Remarkably, five of the seven--Christy Mathewson, Branch Rickey, Ty Cobb, George Sisler, and Eppa "Jeptha" Rixey--are now enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, New York. The son of a sixth Hall of Famer, player and manager Ned Hanlon, was a young officer killed in action in France with the First Gas Regiment. Prominent chemical soldiers also included veteran Major League catcher and future manager George "Gabby" Street and Boston Braves president and former Harvard football coach Percy D. Haughton. The Gas and Flame Men explores how these famous baseball men, along with an eclectic mix of polo players, collegiate baseball and football stars, professors, architects, and prominent social figures all came together in the Chemical Warfare Service. Jim Leeke examines their service and its long-term effects on their physical and mental health--and on Major League Baseball and the world of sports. The Gas and Flame Men also addresses historical inaccuracies and misperceptions surrounding Christy Mathewson's early death from tuberculosis in 1925, long attributed to wartime gas exposure., The Gas and Flame Men tells how chemical warfare changed the course of World War I, war in general, and the game of baseball--with famous players stepping away from the game to serve and fight in France.
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