Looking for help building a team of Marine Corps veterans.

[johnwlits]

Hi everyone. I'm a USMC vet (feels like a previous life now) and was thinking it would be fun to try and do a themed team of Marine Corps vets and try to have it completed by July 4. I've been trying to do some research, but it isn't coming as quickly as I hoped. I've built this partial list of players who were in the Marines who have a card in PT, but I haven't found any lists of MLB players who are veterans, sortable by their branch of service. I've had to go in and individually click names on Baseball Reference, and then half the time I have to go to wikipedia to discern the player's branch of service. Obviously, after I figure out if someone was in the USMC, then I have to use the master list to see if there's a card. This is the list I've built so far, but I'm wondering if anyone knows who I'm missing, or where I can go to more easily figure this out. If not, it will just take me a while to do this.

Hank Bauer
Mace Brown
Jerry Coleman
Al Dark
Gil Hodges
Ted Lyons
Willard Marshall
Windy McCall
Ted Williams
Rod Carew
Tom Seaver
Eddie Collins
Ed Figueroa
Carlos May
Rick Monday

If I can't get a full roster of USMC, I'll have to fill it out with our Navy friends.

[rski70]

Did you find this list? Not sure how many of these guys are actually in PT.

http://www.baseballinwartime.com/marine_corps.htm

[johnwlits]

Originally Posted by rski70

Did you find this list? Not sure how many of these guys are actually in PT.

http://www.baseballinwartime.com/marine_corps.htm

Ah, yes. This is the only one I've seen so far, however it's only for WWII.

[stl jason]

you could get a nice team if you went with any branch of the military (lots of army/navy guys).... this site lists Johnny Pesky as a Marine, so there's a quality infielder

https://www.foxsports.com/mlb/galler...ilitary-110310

[Kushiel]

Originally Posted by johnwlits

Hi everyone. I'm a USMC vet (feels like a previous life now) and was thinking it would be fun to try and do a themed team of Marine Corps vets and try to have it completed by July 4. I've been trying to do some research, but it isn't coming as quickly as I hoped. I've built this partial list of players who were in the Marines who have a card in PT, but I haven't found any lists of MLB players who are veterans, sortable by their branch of service. I've had to go in and individually click names on Baseball Reference, and then half the time I have to go to wikipedia to discern the player's branch of service. Obviously, after I figure out if someone was in the USMC, then I have to use the master list to see if there's a card. This is the list I've built so far, but I'm wondering if anyone knows who I'm missing, or where I can go to more easily figure this out. If not, it will just take me a while to do this.

Hank Bauer
Mace Brown
Jerry Coleman
Al Dark
Gil Hodges
Ted Lyons
Willard Marshall
Windy McCall
Ted Williams
Rod Carew
Tom Seaver
Eddie Collins
Ed Figueroa
Carlos May
Rick Monday

If I can't get a full roster of USMC, I'll have to fill it out with our Navy friends.

Semper Fi, Brother. from 1st Battalion 26th Marines, Vietnam Vet.