2010 Playing With The Enemy by Gary W. Moore
2009 Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
2008 Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
2007 There Are No Children Here by Alex Kotlowitz
2006 The Giver by Lois Lowry
2005 The Encyclopedia of Chicago edited by Ann Durkin Keating
2004 Of Beetles and Angels by Mawi Asgedom
2003 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
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Playing with the Enemy: A Baseball Prodigy, a World at War, and a Field of Broken Dreams by Gary W. Moore
In Playing with the Enemy, Gary W. Moore tells the story of his father, Gene Moore, who, as a young man from the small town of Sesser, Illinois, had an extraordinary talent for baseball.
Gene Moore’s ability on the diamond attracted the attention of the Brooklyn Dodgers, who signed him, and he was on his way to a professional baseball career. Then Pearl Harbor was attacked and he enlisted in the U.S. Navy. During the war, he continued to play baseball—and was assigned to guard secret German POWs, whom he taught to play baseball.
But it was also during the war that his dream of a career in the Majors fell apart.
After the war, the direction of Gene Moore’s career took a turn, and he experienced some difficult years before accepting the new direction of his life.
Playing with the Enemy earned the 2006 Military Writers Society of America Book of the Year award.
Playing with the Enemy is soon to be a motion picture, in which actor Toby Moore, Gary Moore’s son, will portray his grandfather.
Gary W. Moore is an author, entrepreneur, business executive, speaker, sales trainer, and musician. In addition to writing the book Playing with the Enemy, Moore is also a contributing author for Chicken Soup for the Father and Son Soul.
Gary W. Moore earned a bachelor’s degree in music education from VanderCook College of Music.
He lives in Bourbonnais, Illinois.
Gary W. Moore spoke at Batavia Public Library, Thursday, March 18, during two presentations, 12 noon and 7 p.m.
Tickets (free) are required for the evening presentation. Visit or call the Reference Desk, (630) 879-4777, for tickets.
Soldiers in Greasepaint
During World War II, many entertainers answered the call to arms by joining the USO and entertaining troops around the world. Presenter Donna Nowak, singer and storyteller, toured twice with the USO. Hear the songs of the big bands such as Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, and others, and the stories of what happened along the way.
WWII A Riflemans Perspective
Learn how soldiers of the U.S. Mountain Infantry Regiment, Italy, fought the war, from presenter Phil Lauricella. View artifacts and uniforms unique to mountain soldiering—snowshoes, crampons, and more.
Those Were the Days Radio Show
Radio was the everyman’s medium during the War II. In addition to news from the front, radio programs brought entertaining stories and skits into America’s living rooms. Those Were the Days Radio Players West will perform two shows representing radio programming of the early 1940s.
WWII Radio Hour
The Batavia-based Festive Singers bring back the songs of the ’40s that kept the nation’s spirit flying high. Hear Sentimental Journey, Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree, Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, and many more.
The Library hosted an online book discussion from February 1 through March 31, 2010.