WW2 POWs in MLB

Believe it or not, baseball was actually played at German POW camps in WWII. A small number of these men would eventually make it to MLB. I hope you enjoy this video and tribute to these brave men. 00:00 Introduction 03:57 Red Cross 04:32 MIS-X 05:00 Baseball in camps 09:27 Photos by Angelo Spinelli 11:06 MLB POWs "POW Baseball in World War II: The National Pastime Behind Barbed Wire" - Tim Wolter "The Escape Factory: The Story of Mis-X, the Super-Secret U.S. Agency Behind World War II's Greatest Escapes" - Lloyd Shoemaker National Prisoner of War Museum in Andersonville, GA - https://www.nps.gov/ande/planyourvisit/natl_pow_museum.htm "Life Behind Barbed Wire: The Secret World War II Photographs of Angelo M. Spinelli" - Angelo Spinelli