Work, Fight, or Play Ball: How Bethlehem Steel Helped Baseball's Stars Avoid World War I Museum Collectibles Based on extensive research in

Based on extensive research in sixteen archives

its singular performance in the French army during World War I

from hardscrabble operating rooms to battlefields thundering with Cossack cavalry

scholarship on gender and various themes and topics provide students as well as scholars with a chance to think not only about the subject of the war but also the methodological implications of how historians have approached it

John Baxter brilliantly brings to life one of the most dramatic and fascinating periods in the city’s history

Work, Fight, or Play Ball: How Bethlehem Steel Helped Baseball's Stars Avoid World War I Museum Collectibles Based on extensive research inDescription By William Ecenbarger Hardcover In 1918, Bethlehem Steel started the worlds greatest industrial baseball league. Appealing to Major League Baseball players looking to avoid service in the Great War, teams employed ringers like Babe Ruth, Rogers Hornsby, and Shoeless Joe Jackson in what became scornfully known as safe shelter leagues. In Work, Fight, or Play Ball, William Ecenbarger fondly recounts this little known story of how dozens of