6 Minor Leaguers Who Gave Up Baseball Careers to Become Heroes of World War II

If you know anything about minor league baseball, you know that those teams are filled with players who are either waiting to get back to their major-league team or those who are working hard every day for their shot at the big time.
It's hard to overestimate just how important baseball was during the 1940s, and even President Franklin D. Roosevelt believed the game was critical for the country during wartime. Still, baseball players enlisted in droves. For most of them, any kind of wound could end their major-league dreams forever. Some returned to their home field, while others never came home at all.
The website Baseball in Wartime documents the heroism of both major- and minor-league players who risked everything they'd worked for their entire lives so they could serve their country.