143rd AAA Gun Battalion - Page 44

 

Basketball

T/5 Junior Stokes - Center

Pfc Gus Rinaldi - Guard

Pfc J.P. McCann - Forward

Pfc Joe Grecco - Forward

Sgt Emil Hawrylczak - Guard

S/Sgt Dick Price - Mgr Frd

Sgt Andy Fronte - Guard

Pfc Lou Shiller - Forward

Pfc Bob Hood - Guard

Cpl Ed Lynch - Guard

Pfc Ralph Klem - Forward

Baseball

S/Sgt Dick Price - Mgr

Sgt Andy Fronte - Asst Mgr

Pfc Pug Allen - Catcher

Pfc Lou Shiller - First

Pfc Stan Haber - Second

Pfc Gus Rinaldi - Short

T/4 R. R. Smith - Third

Pfc Bill Beveridge - Shortcenter

Sgt E Hawrylczak - Left

Cpl Ed Lynch - Center

Pfc Bob Kern - Right

Pfc J. P. McCann - Pitcher

Pfc Mike Bilas - Pitcher

Pfc Joe Grecco - Pitcher

Utility

Pfc W J Dackiewicz

Pfc Bob Sherrick

T/5 J Stokes

Pfc John Pruchnicki,

Pvt Buckinham

Pfc Vincent Pino

S/Sgt Don Sealy

Pfc Orval Fisher

Pfc Ralph Klem.

Recreational activities have been an indelible part of B Battery's history. The importance of maintaining a high standard of morale among the men cannot be exagerated. In our battery there have been various ways of expressing morale. Movies, dances, sightseeing tours, basketball teams, softball teams are a few of the things which were organized.

On the sport side of the ledger B battery has always been on top. From winning the battalion softball league title at the Muroc Air Base to trouncing the French basketball teams in Paris (we won 9 out of 10 games), our men have always shown a consistently high quality of playing. In the sport activities that followed Paris we have always made a good showing. There were basketball games in Namur and softball games in Germany. We have won and we have lost, but there has never been a time when we weren't playing a good brand of ball. The teams have been a credit to the battery and the battery is very proud of the results.