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1944 Great Lakes vs Local 72 UAW, Kenosha, Wisconsin

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Printed on red card stock, this 1944 game (date unknown) between the Bluejackets and the United Auto Workers team from Local 72 has a distinctively different aesthetic from all of the other Great Lakes Naval Training Station game scorecards (Courtesy of the Chuck Ailsworth Collection).

This oversized scorecard (12″ x 9″) 1944 from a game between the Great Lakes Naval Training Station team vs Kenosha local UAW local 72 is rather unique. The cover is very clearly union-centric with the design (including the layout, fonts, artwork) and messaging and very unlike other wartime service team scorecards. The card also features two

The Great Lakes squad won 16-2. The scorecard is huge at 12 x 9. At that size it does not fit cleanly on my scanner! Then there is the line up insert which is 9 x 6. Both are single fold so four pages to each.

Unused scoresheet with local adverts (Courtesy of the Chuck Ailsworth Collection).
The original owner began to fill out the line-up but didn’t get very far (Courtesy of the Chuck Ailsworth Collection).
(Courtesy of the Chuck Ailsworth Collection).
Great LakesLocal 72 – UAW/CIO
#PlayerPos PlayerPos
2Bill BrandtP Press CruthersMGR
3Mickey CochraneMGR/C George McNeil1B
14Al GlossopSS L. Baas3B
18Roy Hartsfield  Jerry PoltrockC
16Billy Herman2B N. MadisonCF
27Bob KlingerP L. BodaRF
19Merrill May3B J. BellaverCF
25Johnny McCarthy1B P. CappLF
 Carl MeyerYeo. 2/c  SebenaSS
17Walt MilliesC J. PetremanP
26Mizell PlattLF Hal CruthersSS
31Lynwood “Schoolboy” RoweP P. VerlueP
23Jim TrexlerP  OlsonP
22Virgil TrucksP A MattsonP
24Dick WestRF R. FoxP
21Gene WoodlingCF R. RockwoodCF
    “Skinny” WavroP
Team rosters for the Bluejackets and the Local 72 (Courtesy of the Chuck Ailsworth Collection).
Great Lakes Naval Training Station’s commandant’s note regarding the dispensation of the funds raised from this game (Courtesy of the Chuck Ailsworth Collection).
Advertising supporting the Navy Club, an organization that still exists, today (Courtesy of the Chuck Ailsworth Collection).

The scorecard is signed on the War Bond advertisement page by pitcher Jim Trexler (pre-war AA level), first baseman Jack McCarthy, second baseman Al Glossop (MLB 1939-1946), third baseman Merril May (MLB 1939-1943, All Star in 1940), right fielder Dick West (MLB 1938-1943), center-fielder Gene Woodling (MLB 1943-1962) and pitcher Bill Brandt (MLB 1941-1943).

This scorecard was provided, courtesy of the Chuck Ailsworth Collection.

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