Nine Innings for the King: The Day Wartime London Stopped for Baseball, July 4, 1918 by Jim Leeke

Nine Innings for the King: The Day Wartime London Stopped for Baseball, July 4, 1918

Jim Leeke

216 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history sports emotional informative medium-paced
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On a sunny Fourth of July during World War I, King George V went out to a ball game. Along with Queen Mary and other royalty, Winston Churchill, dozens of VIPs, thousands of troops and ordinary Londoners, the monarch cheered an extraordinary "base...

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