Our story begins in Sessler, Indiana in the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor. Fifteen year old Gene Moore is playing catcher for the Sessler Egyptians semi pro team. He can hit, throw and manage like no one else. All the older players respect him and listen when he gives advice and positions players when he is catching. One day a scout for the Brooklyn Dodgers shows up and eventually signs Gene to a contract. He is too young so they find him a better semi pro team to play. In the days after Pearl Harbor he turns seventeen and the Dodgers manage to get Gene assigned to the Navy Baseball team. One day German U Boat 505 is captured, but the U.S. doesn't tell anyone and the entire crew was sent to a POW camp in Ruston, LA. There the Navy was assigned to guard the prisoners. They eventually taught the prisoners how to play baseball. In the final game of the war, Gene Moore breaks his ankle and the is really what drives the rest of the story. It is hard to tell what is true and what is fiction in this story based on the life of Gene Moore. I thought it was very moving story.
10/10
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