A Summer Up North: Henry Aaron and the Legend of Eau Claire Baseball - Couverture souple

Poling, Jerry

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0299181847 ISBN 13 : 9780299181840

Editeur : University of Wisconsin Press, 2002

Synopsis

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 as a ballplayer, but nothing touched me more than that day in Eau Claire." For the people of Eau Claire, Aaron's summer two years before his Major League debut with the Milwaukee Braves symbolizes a magical time, when baseball fans in a small city in northern Wisconsin could live a part of the dream.

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À propos de l?auteur

Jerry Poling is the news-wire editor and a columnist for the Eau Claire Leader Telegram. He is the author of Downfield: Untold Stories of the Green Bay Packers.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Wisconsin Press
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0299181847
• ISBN 13: 9780299181840
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 216
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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