The Cloudbuster Nine by Anne R. Keene -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Front Cover Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents Prologue: Babe’s Yanklands Versus the Navy Pilots, July 28, 1943 Introduction Foreword by Claudia Williams PART I—MAY 11, 1943

Chapter 1 The “Baseball Squad” Chapter 2 The Comeback Kid Chapter 3 Ration-League Baseball

PART II—THE TRUNK

Chapter 4 A Trunk Holding Secrets Chapter 5 The Size of a Dream Chapter 6 My New Friend Ted Chapter 7 A Dream Team Chapter 8 A Train to Durham Chapter 9 The Last Living Player Chapter 10 A Batboy’s Perspective Chapter 11 Ted Who?

PART III—THE WORLD’S MOST DIFFICULT TRAINING PROGRAM

Chapter 12 The Pre-Flight Spark Chapter 13 Tom Hamilton, The Fighting American Chapter 14 Winning the One Big Game

PART IV—THE RIGHT STUFF

Chapter 15 The Right Stuff Culture Chapter 16 Caldwell Hall—The Theory of Flight Chapter 17 The Fathers of Survival Training

PART V—GRAHAM’S FIELD OF DREAMS

Chapter 18 When The Navy Marched Into Chapel Hill

PART VI—PLAYING BASEBALL MILITARY STYLE

Chapter 19 Walking Billboards for Baseball and That Ain’t All Chapter 20 The Season Continues Chapter 21 Babe’s Last At-Bat—The Yanklands

PART VII—GRADUATION

Chapter 22 Ted’s Next Station Chapter 23 A Cloudbuster Reunion in Hawaii Chapter 24 The Nine—After the War and the .5 Percent Chapter 25 Extra Innings

PART VIII—ALWAYS A BASEBALL PLAYER

Chapter 26 The Love of the Game Chapter 27 Longing for the Old Leaguer

Epilogue: Forever a Batboy Afterword Appendix—Major League Players Who Trained at Chapel Hill During World War II Acknowledgements Bibliography Photo credits Photographs