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A Summer Up North: Henry Aaron and the Legend of Eau Claire Baseball
Jerry Poling
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Paperback. Num Pages: 216 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BGS; JFSL3; WSJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 166 x 12. Weight in Grams: 295.
June 12, 1952—only a local sportswriter showed up at the Eau Claire airport to greet a newly signed eighteen-year-old shortstop from Alabama toting a cardboard suitcase. "I was scared as hell," said Henry Aaron, recalling his arrival as the new recruit on the city’s Class C minor league baseball team.
Forty-two years later, as Aaron approached the stadium where the Eau Claire Bears once played, an estimated five thousand people surrounded a newly raised bronze statue of a young "Hank" Aaron at bat. "I had goosebumps," he said later. "A lot of things happened to me in my twenty-three years ... Read more
June 12, 1952—only a local sportswriter showed up at the Eau Claire airport to greet a newly signed eighteen-year-old shortstop from Alabama toting a cardboard suitcase. "I was scared as hell," said Henry Aaron, recalling his arrival as the new recruit on the city’s Class C minor league baseball team.
Forty-two years later, as Aaron approached the stadium where the Eau Claire Bears once played, an estimated five thousand people surrounded a newly raised bronze statue of a young "Hank" Aaron at bat. "I had goosebumps," he said later. "A lot of things happened to me in my twenty-three years ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Wisconsin, United States
ISBN
9780299181840
SKU
V9780299181840
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