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Wartime service scorecard and program cover art ranged from basic utilitarian to beautifully hand-illustrated graphics like this Brookley Army Air Field card. This piece, while not a scorecards, is diminutive in size but the amount of information it contains outpaces its small dimensions.

This monochrome-black piece is printed on heavy cardstock and folded to form a four-page schedule and roster for the Brookley Field Army Air Forces baseball team that played in the Service Industrial League in the Mobile, Alabama region. Facing service teams including the U.S. Coast Guard and the Naval Outlying Landing Field, Barin, Brookley Field also saw action against civilian clubs including Alabama Dry Docks Company, Aluminum Ore Company, Gulf Shipbuilding Company and Altimore Prison.

When folded, the Brookley Field card’s dimensions are four-by-five inches. Download and view the program in its entirety.

Brookley Field Roster:

Rank	#	Player	Pos	Former
Pvt.	5	Hubert Altman	P
Corp.	16	Angelo Borghero	C
Pvt.	3	Nelson Brugger	2B
Sgt.	19	R. W.  DeBerry	P	Sheboygan (WISL)
Sgt.	10	James DiJohn	LF
Pvt.	8	Louis Dupont	C
Corp.	17	William Galupi	RF
Pvt.	6	Lawrence Hessler	3B
Corp.	9	Harry A. Kahre	Inf.	Cooleemee (NCSL)
Sgt.	14	Thomas Kirsch	OF
Pvt.	20	James Lindauer	P
Sgt.	12	Victor Mathews	CF
Pvt.	1	Marvin Narmore	1B
Sgt.	2	David Nickols	P
Corp.	11	Albert W. Olah	OF
Corp.	13	Charles Russian	SS	Augusta (SALL)
Pfc.	7	Norman Smith	OF
Corp.	18	Bill Stenzel	Inf.
Sgt.	3	Vance Stine	P

The Brookley Field club’s roster largely consisted of amateur athletes surrounding a few former minor leaguers, though further research is forthcoming.

This schedule/roster was acquired at auction, August 2022

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