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Great Lakes vs Toledo – Navy Relief Fund

October 7, 2022

2–4 minutes

Navy Relief Fund Game – the Toledo Mud Hens host the Naval Training Station Great Lakes Blue Jackets.

Exhibition games between service and professional teams were held throughout World War II. This scorecard from July 15, 1942 was created for a doubleheader – an early contest between the Columbus Red Birds and the Toledo Mud Hens (both of the American Association) and the main event that saw the Toledo team host Mickey Cochrane’s Great Lakes Naval Training Station’s Bluejackets.

Part of the beauty of these vintage scorecards lie in the advertisements.

This single sheet of heavy card stock is printed on two sides and is folded into thirds, providing a six-page card that includes rosters and scoring grids for both games of the doubleheader. As was standard in the professional game, this scorecard features a significant number of advertisements (including two full pages).

The two American Association teams (Columbus and Toledo) would each see a significant number of the men on these two rosters filling spots on service team rosters in the months following this game – a few even donned the uniform of Great Lakes.

	Toledo Mud Hens			Columbus Red Birds
#	Name	Pos	#	Name	Pos
8	Beau Bell	LF	15	Chuck Aleno	1B
9	Jack Bradsher	LF	4	John Antonelli	3B
22	Jim Bucher	2B	16	Frank Barrett	P
7	Milt Byrnes	CF	12	Augie Bergamo	UT
2	Mark Christman	SS	7	Rae Blaemire	C
17	Bill Cox	P	8	Harry Brecheen	P
12	Bob Dillinger	3B	18	Ken Burkhart	P
11	Art Keller	CF	14	Bill Crouch	P
14	Harry Kimberlin	P	23	Frank Gabler	P
20	Johnny Marcum	P	6	Jim Gleeson	CF
18	Archie McKain	P	11	Tommy Heath	C
21	Fritz Ostermueller	P	9	Lou Klein	SS
19	Roy Parmelee	P	3	Eddie Lukon	LF
1	Ray Parrott	RF	10	Howie Moss	UT
23	Ewald Pyle	P	20	Red Munger	P
15	Fred Sanford	P	24	George Myatt	RF
3	Carl Schultz	UT	19	Preacher Roe	P
9	Hal Spindel	CF	17	Ted Wilks	P
4	Chuck Stevens	1B	5	Dib Williams	1B
16	Lin Storti	UT	2	Pep Young	2B
10	Fred Haney	Mgr.	1	Eddie Dyer	Mgr.

In the second game of the double-header, the Mud Hens hosted Mickey Cochrane’s Great Lakes Naval Training Station Bluejackets, defeating the sailors 7-3.

Toledo Mud Hens			Great Lakes NTS Bluejackets
#	Name	Pos	#	Player	Position
8	Beau Bell	LF	10	Chester Hajduk	1B
9	Jack Bradsher	LF	2	Benny McCoy	2B
22	Jim Bucher	2B	19	Ernie Andres	3B
7	Milt Byrnes	CF	11	John Lucadello	SS
2	Mark Christman	SS	8	Don Padgett	LF
17	Bill Cox	P	15	Earl Bolyard	CF
12	Bob Dillinger	3B	9	Joe Grace	RF
11	Art Keller	CF	18	Frankie Pytlak	C
14	Harry Kimberlin	P	7	Sam Harshaney	C
20	Johnny Marcum	P	17	Russ Meers	P
18	Archie McKain	P	23	Johnny Rigney	P
21	Fritz Ostermueller	P	25	Jim Reninger	P
19	Roy Parmelee	P	20	Cliff Clay	P
1	Ray Parrott	RF	14	Don Dunker	P
23	Ewald Pyle	P	16	Dick Klein	P
15	Fred Sanford	P	26	Herman Fishman	p
3	Carl Schultz	UT	27	Don Godfredson	p
9	Hal Spindel	CF	3	Mickey Cochrane	Mgr.
4	Chuck Stevens	1B		Hinkle	CH
16	Lin Storti	UT	22	Mulky	CH
10	Fred Haney	Mgr.

The crowd that this game drew was nearly 10,000 strong and was one of the largest to see a Toledo game (at Swayne Field) and the loss to Toledo was only the eighth in 50 games already played in the 1942 season.

The main event game between the Great Lakes Naval Training Station Bluejackets versus the Toledo Mud Hens.

This scorecard was obtained from one of the men (Toledo’s first baseman, Chuck Stevens) who played for Toledo and would find later enlist into the U.S. Army Air Forces and find himself assigned to the 6th Ferrying Group, Wheeler Air Field (in Hawaii) and as part of the Air Force’s 1945 Pacific Island tours.