Work, Fight, or Play Ball: How Bethlehem Steel Helped Baseball's Stars Avoid World War I Museum Collectibles John Baxter brilliantly brings to

John Baxter brilliantly brings to life one of the most dramatic and fascinating periods in the city’s history

by Mark Levitch

who herself has borne witness to a lifetime of death—the death of her people

its singular performance in the French army during World War I

Assigned to the First Division of the American Expeditionary Forces

Work, Fight, or Play Ball: How Bethlehem Steel Helped Baseball's Stars Avoid World War I Museum Collectibles John Baxter brilliantly brings toDescription By William Ecenbarger Hardcover In 1918, Bethlehem Steel started the worlds greatest industrial baseball league. Appealing to Major League Baseball players looking to avoid service in the Great War, teams employed ringers like Babe Ruth, Rogers Hornsby, and Shoeless Joe Jackson in what became scornfully known as safe shelter leagues. In Work, Fight, or Play Ball, William Ecenbarger fondly recounts this little known story of how dozens of