Recently I listened to the one with Gary Moore who authored the book, "Playing With The Enemy." It's the biography of his father, Gene Moore, who was destined to be a baseball great and was selected by the Dodgers at age 15. Pearl Harbor intervened and the Dodgers signed Gene onto the Navy Baseball Demonstration Team so he wouldn't have to fight. His "boot-camp" was more like Spring Training and afterwards they went to Africa and played the Army Demonstration Team. After they had to stand down, they became PoW camp guards for the crew of U-505, the German Submarine that is now displayed at the Chicago Museum of Technology. Bored, they taught their prisoners the game and during their final game, Gene receives an injury that forever shatters his dream of playing baseball.
The story isn't about baseball but about how one man recovered from the guttter through the love of a woman and with the help of a former PoW. It is a son's tribute to his father in the manner of "Flags of Our Fathers." This fall, it will be a major motion picture with Gene's role played by his grandson, Toby Moore.
Listen to the recording and decide for yourself whether you want to read the book.  | 
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