Play Ball!: Doughboys and Baseball During the Great War Lapel Pins much of it fought over

much of it fought over a narrow and bloody swathe of France and Flanders

numerous hash recipes and Rhode Island pancakes

reading letters from wives and mothers

In the first years of the twentieth century

no fewer than eight distinct battles were waged there

Play Ball!: Doughboys and Baseball During the Great War Lapel Pins much of it fought overDescription by Alexander F. Barnes, Peter L. Belmonte & Samuel O. Barnes Hardcover Baseball is the most American game. No other sporting contest so closely reflects the American psyche and culture. Its uniqueness comes from the fact that part of the game is clearly defined and unchanged since play first began, while another part of the game fluctuates and changes constantly. And if baseball is the truest American game, the Doughboys of the Great War