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Jumpin' Jimminy--A World War II Baseball Saga: American Flyboys and Japanese Submariners Battle it Out in a Swedish World Series
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Publisher Price: $13.95
ISBN13: 9780595312481
Publisher: Authorhouse
Published: Feb 22 2004
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Jumpin' Jimminy crew, the best ball team in the Eighth Air Force, is a heaven-sent gift to the baseball-crazy Swedish Major responsible for American internees.
The Japanese have made meatballs of the Major's amateur Swedish ball players. Now, he can field a hard-hitting, determined American team to battle the Japanese in a Swedish World Series.
Waiting for spring training, the Yanks get essential jobs. Two carry out daring undercover assignments for the OSS. The team's shortstop, the only black GI assigned to a U.S. bomber crew, speaks fluent Swedish which he learned working for Swedes in Chicago. He helps his Swedish moonshining cousins create Sweden's absolutely greatest akvavit. And the other Yanks valiantly help the Allied war effort in the cold, grim, oasis of peaceful Swedish neutrality.
And then it's Spring of 1945 and Play Ball in the first and only Swedish World Series.
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