A Summer Up North

A Summer Up North
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Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages : 211
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ISBN-10 : 9780299181833
ISBN-13 : 0299181839
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Book Synopsis A Summer Up North by : Jerry Poling

Download or read book A Summer Up North written by Jerry Poling and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2002-10-28 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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