Salute to U.S. Military Baseball All-Stars to be Celebrated at 10th Annual Baseball Film Festival

Earlier this week, Producers George Case III and Jim Vankoski announced that their film Ballfield to Battlefield and Back – From FDR to JFK has been selected for celebration during a showing at the Tenth Annual Baseball Film Festival to be held at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, NY from September 25-27, 2015. As a salute to U.S. Military allstar baseball history, the film features rare color footage of WW II and Korean War-era major league players from 1939 through 1962.

The film, a national treasure, is introduced by Navy Lieutenant Commander and Director of Business Development at RIX Industries, Terry Allvord, who was one of the few honorees selected by President George H.W. Bush to reestablish baseball in the modern era as the founder of the U.S. Military All-Stars Red, White and Blue Tour.

“There’s no doubt that baseball is America’s game. Saluting our military by incorporating the two historic traditions of baseball and film is patriotic. Ballfield to Battlefield and Back – From FDR to JFK   does an exemplary job at this,” says Terry.

Filmed and narrated by two former major league players, George Case (six-time stolen base champion and four time allstar) and Mickey Vernon (two-time batting champion and seven-time allstar), this historic film features four presidents ( Franklin D. Roosevelt , Harry S. Truman , Dwight D. Eisenhower , and John F. Kennedy ) ‘throwing the first pitch’ in Washington D.C., as well as remarkable color footage of Babe Ruth Day at Yankee Stadium in 1947 and the legendary Honus Wagner when he was manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1948.

More than eighty allstar players served in the armed forces and over forty are in the Hall of Fame induction, including Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, Stan Musial, Bob Feller, Warren Spahn, Hank Greenberg, Jackie Robinson, and Yogi Berra. For more information visit www.baseballhall.org.