About

Brett Kiser is a freelance writer/researcher who took to heart the concept of writing what you know and enjoy.  With a keen interest in Americana, notably baseball and WWII culture, his passions led him to author The Pin-Up Girls of World War II and an earlier volume titled Baseball’s War Roster.  He currently lives in eastern Missouri.

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Born: Marshall, Missouri

Education: Bachelor’s Degree from Missouri Western State University, St. Joseph, MO

Favorite Literature and Literary Figures: Dante Alighieri, James Fenimore Cooper, Alphonse Daudet, Thomas Haliburton, Henry James, Thomas Love Peacock, Edgar Allan Poe, Shirley Povich, Laurence Sterne, Autobiography of Samuel Hildebrand, Don Quixote by Cervantes, Glory of the Their Times by Lawrence Ritter, The Iliad by Homer, Opportunity by Edward Rowland Sill, Tartarin of Tarascon by Alphonse Daudet, The Teammates by David Halberstam.

Favorite book: Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock

Favorite book series: The Tartarin tales by Alphonse Daudet

Favorite baseball biography: You Can’t Steal First Base by Jimmie Dykes

Favorite all-time player: Ted Williams

Favorite non-Hall of Famer: Cecil Travis

Ten figures I’d put in the Hall of Fame: Ross Barnes, Ken Boyer, Bill Dahlen, Dwight Evans, Jim McCormick, Lou Piniella, Vada Pinson, Harry Stovey, Cecil Travis, Nick Young

All-time lineup: C Yogi Berra, 1B Lou Gehrig, 2B Nap Lajoie, SS Honus Wagner, 3B George Brett, RF Babe Ruth, CF Ty Cobb, LF Ted Williams, SP Walter Johnson, RP Mariano Rivera

All-time non-Hall of Fame lineup: C Bill Freehan, 1B Joe Start, 2B Ross Barnes, SS Bad Bill Dahlen, 3B Ken Boyer, RF Dwight Evans, CF Vada Pinson, LF Bob Johnson, SP Jim McCormick, RP Billy Wagner

Favorite WWII pinup: Carole Landis

Favorite all-time pinup: Madeline Smith

Favorite movie: O Brother Where Art Thou?