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🇺🇸 Most Badass Ballplayers: Combat Veteran Edition #1 Hank Bauer Hank Bauer, United States Marine and eight-time World Series champion, was one badass ballplayer. Born July 31, 1922, in East St. Louis, Illinois. One month after Pearl Harbor, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps. He volunteered for the elite Marine Raiders and was sent to the Pacific Theater. He fought in some of the bloodiest campaigns of the war, including Guadalcanal, Guam, and Okinawa. On Guam, Bauer went ashore on the very first day. He earned his first Bronze Star for demonstrating exceptional valor during intense, close-quarters jungle warfare. He was wounded in the back by enemy shrapnel from an exploding shell. He refused to leave the battlefield. It was his first Purple Heart. Years later, pieces of shrapnel from that wound were still embedded in his back. His Yankees teammates would sometimes pick metal fragments out of him in the clubhouse. The fighting he experienced on Okinawa was even more brutal. Bauer was a platoon sergeant leading 64 Marines. Only six of them survived the battle. On April 15, 1945, under heavy mortar and machine-gun fire, he repeatedly exposed himself to evacuate wounded men. When stretcher bearers were no longer available, he carried casualties himself to the aid station. For that action he earned a second Bronze Star. He was also wounded in the thigh by an artillery shell, tearing a massive hole in his left thigh. He received his second Purple Heart. As he was being carried off, he turned to a buddy and said, “There goes my baseball career.” Throughout his time in the Pacific, Bauer also battled malaria, contracting it twenty-four separate times (that’s not a typo). After the war he returned to baseball. He made the Yankees in 1948 and became a key part of their dynasty, winning seven World Series titles as a player over 14 seasons. He hit safely in a then record 17 straight World Series games. He later managed the Yankees to the 1964 pennant and the Orioles to a World Series championship in 1966. 32 months of combat. 11 campaign ribbons. 2 Bronze Stars, 2 Purple Hearts. 8 World Series Championships. Thank you, Hank! 🫡🇺🇸⚾

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Hank Bauer, United States Marine and eight-time World Series champion, was one badass ballplayer.

Born July 31, 1922, in East St. Louis, Illinois.

One month after Pearl Harbor, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps.

He volunteered for the elite Marine Raiders and was sent to the Pacific Theater.

He fought in some of the bloodiest campaigns of the war, including Guadalcanal, Guam, and Okinawa.

On Guam, Bauer went ashore on the very first day.

He earned his first Bronze Star for demonstrating exceptional valor during intense, close-quarters jungle warfare.

He was wounded in the back by enemy shrapnel from an exploding shell. He refused to leave the battlefield.

It was his first Purple Heart.

Years later, pieces of shrapnel from that wound were still embedded in his back. His Yankees teammates would sometimes pick metal fragments out of him in the clubhouse.

The fighting he experienced on Okinawa was even more brutal.

Bauer was a platoon sergeant leading 64 Marines.

Only six of them survived the battle.

On April 15, 1945, under heavy mortar and machine-gun fire, he repeatedly exposed himself to evacuate wounded men.

When stretcher bearers were no longer available, he carried casualties himself to the aid station. For that action he earned a second Bronze Star.

He was also wounded in the thigh by an artillery shell, tearing a massive hole in his left thigh. He received his second Purple Heart.

As he was being carried off, he turned to a buddy and said, “There goes my baseball career.”

Throughout his time in the Pacific, Bauer also battled malaria, contracting it twenty-four separate times (that’s not a typo).

After the war he returned to baseball.

He made the Yankees in 1948 and became a key part of their dynasty, winning seven World Series titles as a player over 14 seasons.

He hit safely in a then record 17 straight World Series games.

He later managed the Yankees to the 1964 pennant and the Orioles to a World Series championship in 1966.

32 months of combat. 11 campaign ribbons. 2 Bronze Stars, 2 Purple Hearts. 8 World Series Championships.

Thank you, Hank! 🫡🇺🇸⚾

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