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Author Leeke, Jim, 1949- author.

Title The best team over there : the untold story of Grover Cleveland Alexander and the Great War / Jim Leeke
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (280 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Prologue -- Alexander the Great -- Laddies from Missouri -- Gridiron -- Chicago -- Fast Nine -- Through a door -- Camp Funston -- Camp Mills -- Justicia -- Camp de Souge -- NAS Pauillac -- St. Mihiel -- Euvezin -- Armistice -- The March -- Occupied Germany -- Safe at Home -- Postwar -- The long, long trail
Summary Jim Leeke tells the little-known history of Grover Cleveland Alexander and fellow athletes in the 342nd Field Artillery Regiment during the Great War
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Alexander, Grover Cleveland, 1887-1950.
SUBJECT Alexander, Grover Cleveland, 1887-1950 fast
Subject United States. Army -- Medical care -- History -- 20th century
SUBJECT United States. Army fast
Subject Pitchers (Baseball) -- Nebraska -- Biography
Baseball players -- United States -- Biography
Soldiers -- United States -- Biography
Soldiers -- Wounds and injuries -- United States
World War, 1914-1918 -- Medical care
War -- Medical aspects -- History -- 20th century
Medicine, Military -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Armed Forces -- Medical care
Baseball players
Medical care
Medicine, Military
Pitchers (Baseball)
Soldiers
Soldiers -- Wounds and injuries
War -- Medical aspects
Nebraska
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1496226410
9781496226419