#87: Extra Innings - More Baseball Players at Arlington

Thanks to a question posed to me at a high school baseball game by listener Chris A., I looked a little deeper to see if there were other professional baseball players besides Spottswood Poles buried at Arlington. It turns out that there are six so I decided to give a short vignette about each of them.

Today's Ghosts of Arlington are:

Navy Sailor Oscar Bielaski (Section 17, Grave 17991)
Army Private William Stearns (Section 13, Grave 13931)
Army Private William Stearns, Jr. (Section 17, Grave 22297)
Navy Commander John "Doc" Lavan (Section 3, Grave 1352-E)
Army Corporal Ernest "Jud" Wilson (Section 43, Grave 1114)
Army Second Lieutenant Hal "Hoot" Rice (Court 5, Section MM, Column 8, Niche 3)
Army Captain Elmer Gedeon (Section 34, Grave 3047)

The introduction and transition music heard on the podcast is composed and reporded by the eldest Ghosts of Arlington, Jr. While the rest of his catelogue is quite different from what he's performed for me, you can find his music on bandcamp.com under the names Caladrius and Bloodfeather.

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