Author, UNC grad tackles one of the greatest baseball teams you’ve never heard of
Posted Sep 24, 2018
When Anne Keene, the Austin author of “The Cloudbuster Nine: The Untold Story of Ted Williams and the Baseball Team that Helped Win World War II,” was growing up, she knew that her father both loved and hated the game of baseball. She knew he adored it, loved the old players, told stories about them to the point that it became something of a family joke.
(Austin American-Statesman)
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