“Once again Jim Leeke gives us kids in the grandstands our fifty cents’ worth. From the Dugouts to the Trenches has the reader tugging Jim’s jersey and begging, ‘Say, mister. Got any more of them swell stories?’”

—Dean Karayanis, radio host of the History Author Show in New York City

“A first-rate contribution to baseball and Great War scholarship.”

—Mitchell Yockelson, author of Forty-Seven Days: How Pershing’s Warrior’s Came of Age to Defeat the German Army in World War I

“Leeke’s trenchant look at baseball during the Great War describes grandees, players, and journalists struggling to find a footing in the suddenly hobbled game. Meanwhile, their colleagues overseas witness the grim dawn of the modern world. Riveting and insightful.”

—L. M. Sutter, author of Arlie Latham: A Baseball Biography of the Freshest Man on Earth