UNC grad Anne R. Keene discusses pro baseball at UNC during World War II in new book

Posted Jun 10, 2018
Once upon a time, major league baseball players thrived in Chapel Hill. Author Anne R. Keene recently released a book, titled "The Cloudbuster Nine," about a team of Major League Baseball players who played while at a Navy training school at UNC in 1943. The team of fighter pilots never had their story told until now, by Keene, the daughter of their bat boy. (Daily Tar Heel)

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