Episode 103: Baseball During World War I - Jim Leeke (Covering the Bases, Part 4)

Jim Leeke is a former news journalist, copywriter, and creative director. He is the author of several books, including “Howell’s Storm: New York City’s Official Rainmaker and the 1950 Drought,” “Sudden Ice,” “Long Shadows: The Farewell to JFK,” “A Hundred Days to Richmond,” “Matty Boy: A Civil War Novel for Young Readers,” “Manila and Santiago: The New Steel Navy in the Spanish-American War,” “The Turtle and the Dreamboat: The Cold War Flights That Forever Changed the Course of Global Aviation,” “Ballplayers in the Great War: Newspaper Accounts of Major Leaguers in World War I Military Service,” Nine Innings for the King: The Day Wartime London Stopped for Baseball, July 4, 1918,” “From the Dugouts to the Trenches: Baseball during the Great War,” “The Best Team Over There: The Untold Story of Grover Cleveland Alexander and the Great War,” and “The Gas and Flame Men: Baseball and the Chemical Warfare Service during World War I.”