The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

by Lawrence S. Ritter

league ballplayer to go into the armed forces. I was drafted into the Army on May 7, 1941, and didn’t get back into baseball until July of 1945. I was 30 years old and at the peak of my career when I left, and 34 years old and a bit shopworn when I got back.