⚾ Batter up! It’s Opening Day! ⚾ One of the Yorktown’s top gunnery officers was first an ace pitcher with a blazing fastball! Lt. George Livingston Earnshaw played Major League Baseball for the Philadelphia Athletics before joining the US Navy. The World Series Champion was also awarded the Bronze Star for his “exceptional ability and judgement” during the April 1944 strike on Truk Island. After leaving the Navy in 1947, Earnshaw scouted and coached for the Philadelphia Phillies. * * * * * * * * * #history #worldwarII #WWII #baseball #openingday