The Cloudbuster Nine
The Untold Story of Ted Williams and the Baseball Team That Helped Win World War IIBy Keene, Anne R
Length11h 40m
About this audiobook
In 1943, while the New York Yankees and St. Louis Cardinals battled for the World Series title, another legendary team was taking the field on a scrappy diamond in North Carolina. The Cloudbuster Nine wasn’t just any baseball team. They were big-league pros turned Navy fighter-pilot cadets, including Ted Williams, Johnny Pesky, and Johnny Sain, training to become America’s heroes. At the heart of it all was Jim Raugh, the team’s batboy. From cramped buses to war-bond exhibitions—even a game at Yankee Stadium against a Babe Ruth–led squad—Jim witnessed baseball history firsthand. He chased his own dreams as a college All-American, but life threw him a curveball: a career-ending injury that dashed his major-league dreams. Now, Jim’s daughter, Anne R. Keene, uncovers an untold story from his long-lost scrapbook, revealing memories from a sports-based training program that shaped some of America’s greatest leaders: George H. W. Bush, John Glenn, Bear Bryant, and John Wooden among them. The Cloudbuster Nine tells, for the first time, the thrilling story of this patriotic baseball team with legends like Ted Williams who played for pride, country and the war-effort—and helped win World War II.
Audiobook details
GenreOther
Length11 hrs 40 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 21, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Prologue: Babe’s Yanklands versus the Navy Pilots, July 28, 1943
2Foreword by Claudia Williams xix
3PART I—MAY 11, 1943
4Chapter 1 The “Baseball Squad”
5Chapter 2 The Comeback Kid
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6Chapter 3 Ration-League Baseball
7PART II—THE TRUNK
8Chapter 4 A Trunk Holding Secrets
9Chapter 5 The Size of a Dream
10Chapter 6 My New Friend Ted
11Chapter 7 A Dream Team
12Chapter 8 A Train to Durham
13Chapter 9 The Last Living Player
14Chapter 10 A Batboy’s Perspective
15Chapter 11 Ted Who?
16PART III—THE WORLD’S MOST DIFFICULT TRAINING PROGRAM
17Chapter 12 The Pre-Flight Spark
18Chapter 13 Tom Hamilton, The Fighting American
19Chapter 14 Winning the One Big Game
20PART IV—THE RIGHT STUFF
21Chapter 15 The Right-Stuff Culture
22Chapter 16 Caldwell Hall—The Theory of Flight
23Chapter 17 The Fathers of Survival Training
24PART V—GRAHAM’S FIELD OF DREAMS: Chapter 18 When The Navy Marched into Chapel Hill
25PART VI—PLAYING BASEBALL MILITARY STYLE
26Chapter 19 Walking Billboards for Baseball and That Ain’t All
27Chapter 20 The Season Continues
28Chapter 21 Babe’s Last At-Bat—The Yanklands
29PART VII—GRADUATION
30Chapter 22 Ted’s Next Station
31Chapter 23 A Cloudbusters Reunion in Hawaii
32Chapter 24 The Nine—After the War and the .5 Percent
33Chapter 25 Extra Innings
34PART VIII—ALWAYS A BASEBALL PLAYER
35Chapter 26 The Love of the Game
36Chapter 27 Longing for the Old Leaguer
37Epilogue: Forever a Batboy
38Afterword
39Appendix—Major-League Players Who Trained at Chapel Hill during World War II
40Bibliography
41Photo credits
42Index
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