Playing with the Enemy: A Baseball Prodigy, World War II, and the Long Journey Home by Gary Moore is a bookend to something I read last fall, A Measureless Peril.
Written by his son, it tells the story of small-town (Sasser, IL) baseball phenom Gene Moore. Moore was scouted and signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers and was expected to play major league baseball – until World War II intervened.
The book was a bit less academic and more sentimental than what I usually read, but don’t let that discourage reading it. Playing With the Enemy is a good reminder that we should appreciate what we’ve got, rather than dwell on what we never had.
John stands in front of U-505, captured by the US Navy off the coast of West Africa shortly before D-Day.
Thanks to John for the book recommendation, and for getting us to the Museum of Science and Industry to check out U-505.
Read about the book on Amazon here.