1942 Great Lakes vs Chanute Field at Comiskey Park

Great Lakes Naval Training Station line-up and roster (Courtesy of the Chuck Ailsworth Collection).

This game played on July 2, 1942 against Chanute Field (located in Campaign County, Illinois) was home to the 99th Pursuit Squadron (known as the “Red Tails”), constituted from U.S. Army Air Forces aviators trained at Tuskegee and Maxwell Fields in Alabama. The scorecard is a single sheet of card stock with each team line-up, roster and scoring grid occupying a face of the card.

Most-likely inserted into a Chicago White Sox game day scorecard or program, this piece is a single page, two sides bi-folded card that was printed by the White Sox.

	Great Lakes				Chanute Field
Number	Player	Position		Number	Player	Position
19	Ernie Andres	3B		12	Bushong	2B
15	Jim Basso	OF		2	Tominsek	3B
12	Frank Baumholtz	CF		8	Gittens	CF
20	Cliff Clay	P		9	Scheffler	1B
3	Mickey Cochrane	MGR/C		4	Corbin	RF
24	Hugh Dickie			7	Haack	C
14	Don Dunker	P		6	Scalise	LF
26	Herm Fishman	P		5	Riha	SS
27	Don Godfredsen	P		1	Walkup
9	Joe Grace	RF		3	Mathews
10	Chester Hajduk	1B		14	Hammes
7	Sam Harshaney	C		15	Goemer
17	Hinkle	Coach		16	Fritsch
16	Dick Klein	P		17	Stover
11	John Lucadello	SS		18	Venable
7	Mike Lurel	IF		19	Kays
2	Benny McCoy	2B		23	Gentalmon
22	O. V. Mulkey	Coach		24	Bilak
8	Don Padgett	LF		25	Pronold
18	Frankie Pytlak	C		26	Davis	Coach
25	Jim Reninger	P		27	Alfrey	Coach
23	Johnny Rigney	P		28	Kuhn	Coach
21	Lee Williams	P			LT G.J. McEniry	Manager

The Chanute team was a member of the Bluejackets’ service team league but this game was played in Comiskey Field to provide opportunity for Chicago-area fans to see the teams play while helping to raise money (from ticket and concessions sales) for Army and Navy Relief.

Chanute Field Lineup and roster (Courtesy of the Chuck Ailsworth Collection).

The Bluejackets won 7-1 behind the pitching of Johnny Rigney in his return to his home field.

This scorecard was provided, courtesy of the Jeffrey Lazarus Collection.

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