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Cloudbuster Nine, The by Anne R Keene The Untold Story of Ted Williams & BAsebal
Cloudbuster Nine, The by Anne R Keene The Untold Story of Ted Williams and the Baseball Team that Helped Win WWII
Soft Cover
351 pages
Copyright 2020
CONTENTS
Prologue: Babe's Yanklands versus the Navy Pilots, July 28, 1943vii
Introduction xv
Foreword by Claudia Williamsxix
PART IMAY 11, 1943
Chapter 1The "Baseball Squad"3
Chapter 2The Comeback Kid7
Chapter 3Ration-League Baseball11
PART IITHE TRUNK
Chapter 4A Trunk Holding Secrets27
Chapter 5The Size of a Dream31
Chapter 6My New Friend Ted39
Chapter 7A Dream Team43
Chapter 8A Train to Durham56
Chapter 9The Last Living Player68
Chapter 10A Batboy's Perspective86
Chapter 11Ted Who?90
PART IIITHE WORLD'S MOST DIFFICULT TRAINING PROGRAM
Chapter 12The Pre-Flight Spark97
Chapter 13Tom Hamilton, The Fighting American101
Chapter 14Winning the One Big Game115
PART IVTHE RIGHT STUFF
Chapter 15The Right-Stuff Culture125
Chapter 16Caldwell HallThe Theory of Flight128
Chapter 17The Fathers of Survival Training132
PART VGRAHAM'S FIELD OF DREAMS
Chapter 18When The Navy Marched into Chapel Hill143
PART VIPLAYING BASEBALL MILITARY STYLE
Chapter 19Walking Billboards for Baseball and That Ain't All165
Chapter 20The Season Continues178
Chapter 21Babe's Last At-Bat--The Yanklands195
PART VIIGRADUATION
Chapter 22Ted's Next Station211
Chapter 23A Cloudbusters Reunion in Hawaii232
Chapter 24 The NineAfter the War and the .5 Percent243
Chapter 25Extra Innings254
PART VIIIALWAYS A BASEBALL PLAYER
Chapter 26The Love of the Game265
Chapter 27Longing for the Old Leaguer279
Epilogue: Forever a Batboy287
Afterword290
AppendixMajor-League Players Who Trained at Chapel Hill during World War II 296
Acknowledgments314
Bibliography 321
Photo credits341
Index342
ON THE BACK COVER
In 1943, while the New York Yankees and St. Louis Cardinals were winning pennants and meeting in that year's World Series, one of the nation's strongest baseball teams practiced on a skinned-out college field in the heart of North Carolina. Ted Williams, Johnny Pesky, and Johnny Sain were among a cadre of fighter-pilot cadets who wore the Cloudbuster Nine baseball jersey at an elite Navy training school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
In this spirited Field of Dreams-like father-daughter account, author Anne R. Keene opens with a story about her father, Jim Raugh, who suited up as the team batboy and mascot. He got to know his baseball heroes personally, watching players hit the road on cramped, tin-can buses, dazzling factory workers, kids, and service members at dozens of games, including a War Relief exhibition against Babe Ruth's team at Yankee Stadium.
Jimmy followed his baseball dreams as a college All-American, but was crushed later in life by a failed major-league bid with the Detroit Tigers. He would have carried this story to his grave had Anne not discovered his scrapbook from a Navy school that shaped America's greatest heroes, including George H. W. Bush, Gerald Ford, John Glenn, Paul "Bear" Bryant, and John Wooden.
With the help of rare images and insights from the last surviving World War II major-league baseball veterans such as Dr. Bobby Brown and Eddie Robinson, the story of this remarkable team is brought to life for the first time in The Cloudbuster Nine: The Untold Story of Ted Williams and the Baseball Team That Helped Win World War II.
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