The video tribute to Brissie showcases one of those visits, with the veterans clearly moved by Brissie's words.
Pinned down by enemy fire, Brissie eventually was wounded when an artillery shell landed at his feet, shattering his left shin bones into 30 pieces.
That promise was one of the things that kept Brissie going.
Brissie would have none of that, insisting that he needed them to fix the leg because he intended to play in the major leagues.
Brissie, 88, while unable to attend for health reasons, will be among those honored in the video.
Brissie said he tried to stress to the Indians that because of chronic osteomyelitis, a bacterial infection in his bone marrow, he needed regular work to stay in shape, but the team never gave him that chance.
After Mack's retirement, Brissie was traded midway through the 1951 season to the Cleveland Indians in a three-way deal that sent the future All-Star Minnie Minoso to the Chicago White Sox.
The next season, after winning 23 games in the minors, Brissie made his major league debut in late September, pitching seven innings in a loss to the Yankees.
In 1950, Mack's final season as manager, Brissie was even better, throwing 246 innings as the staff ace.
Because of an editing error, an article on Thursday about Lou Brissie, a left-handed pitcher who played in the major leagues after being injured in World War II, misstated the outcome of the 1949 All-Star Game, in which Brissie pitched three innings.
"I had signed an agreement that they would send me through the first three years of college and at the end of the third year I would report to the ball club," Brissie said in a telephone interview this week.
