Gary Bedingfield

Who is Gary Bedingfield?

Gary Bedingfield is a British historian of baseball. He is a native of England and developed an interest in baseball as a youth. As a catcher, he played in competitive league baseball for over twenty years with the Enfield Spartans and was a member of the Great Britain national baseball team.

In the 1990s he began work as a baseball historian and focused on the history of baseball during World War II. In 2000 he created the Baseball in Wartime website, launched the monthly Baseball in Wartime e-Newsletter in 2007, and in 2009 he launched the Baseball in Wartime blog. He was instrumental in arranging an announcement at every minor league ballpark on Memorial Day 2008 honoring the players who served during World War II and those who made the ultimate sacrifice. Bedingfield is also the author of numerous articles and two books about the history of baseball during the Second World War. Bedingfield currently maintains the only online biographical database dedicated to professional baseball players who were killed during World War II. In 2012, Bedingfield launched the "Baseball's Greatest Sacrifice" website dedicated to baseball players who lost their lives in military service.