The Cloudbuster Nine: the untold story of Ted Williams and the baseball team that helped win World War II

Prologue: Babe's Yanklands versus the Navy pilots, July 28, 1943

Foreword / by Claudia Williams

Part I

MAY 11, 1943. The "baseball squad" ; The comeback kid ; Ration-league baseball

Part II

The trunk. A trunk holding secrets ; The size of the dream ; My new friend Ted ; A dream team ; A train to Durham ; The last living player ; A batboy's perspective ; Ted who?

Part III

The world's most difficult training program. The pre-flight spark ; Tom Hamilton, the fighting American ; Winning the one big game

Part IV

The right stuff. The right stuff culture ; Caldwell Hall

the theory of flight ; The fathers of survival training

Part V

Graham's field of dreams. When the Navy marched into Chapel Hill

Part VI

Playing baseball military style. Walking billboards for baseball and that ain't all ; The season continues ; Babe's last at-bat

the Yanklands

Part VII

Graduation. Ted's next station ; A Cloudbuster reunion in Hawaii ; The nine

after the war and the .5 percent ; Extra innings

Part VIII

Always a baseball player. The love of the game ; Longing for the old leaguer

Epilogue: Forever a batboy.