Chevrons and Diamonds

This scorecard of the August 14, 1943 game between the visiting Great Lakes Naval Training Station Bluejackets hosted by the Naval Air Station, Lambert Field (St. Louis, Missouri) shows that the field was dominated by (essentially two squads of) major leaguers. On the cover. This exhibition was the early game (the second of a three game series against the Lambert Navy Wings) was part of a double-header with the St. Louis Browns hosting the New York Yankees in the later game that evening.

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	Great Lakes				NAS Lambert Navy Wings
#	Player	Pos		#	Player	Pos
19	Frank Biscan	P		1	Robert Stapenhorst	P
22	Earle Bolyard	OF		3	Olsen	P
2	Dan Casey	OF		4	Val Heim	OF
3	Mickey Cochrane	MGR/C		5	Frank “Skeeter” Scalzi	IF
25	George “Skeets” Dickey	C		7	Buddy Blattner	IF
14	Marv Felderman	C		8	Johnny Berardino	IF
8	Tom Ferrick	P		9	Grant	OF
17	Carl Fiore	3B		10	Bob Scheffing	C
9	Joe Grace	RF		11	Dick Sisler	OF
27	Pete Hader	P		12	Hal Schumacher	P
20	Chester Hajduk	2B		14	Fisher	IF
24	Bob Harris	P		15	Pfeifer	OF
17	Thomas Madden	IF		17	Bill Mueller	OF
15	Barney McCoskey	CF		19	Emil Kush	P
7	Glenn McQuillen	LF		20	Boris “Babe” Martin	OF
31	Johnny Mize	1B		21	Tydings	C
26	Leo Nonnemkamp	RF			Martin	C
23	Vern Olsen	P			Sach	OF
12	Eddie Pellagrini	SS
10	Warren  Robinson	C
18	Johnny Schmitz	P

The Lambert Navy Wings handed Great Lakes a 7-2 loss in this second game of their season series, getting to Frank Biscan and the rest of the Great Lakes team.  The first game in their series was two weeks prior in Chicago when Great Lakes, lead on the mound with the pitching from Frank Biscan, defeated Lambert, 7-3.

On August 15, the series went Great Lakes way with a route of Lambert on neutral ground in Quincy, Illinois, 125 miles north of St. Louis. The Bluejackets handed Lambert a 17-2 route and improved their season record to 43-10.

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

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