{"product_id":"summer-up-north-henry-aaron-and-the-legend-of-eau-claire-baseball-paperback","title":"Summer Up North: Henry Aaron and the Legend of Eau Claire Baseball - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJerry Poling\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eN. N. Glatzer\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJune 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.\u003cbr\u003eForty-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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJerry Poling is the news-wire editor and a columnist for the Eau Claire Leader Telegram. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eDownfield: Untold Stories of the Green Bay Packers\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 216\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.49 x 9.1 x 6.52 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 23, 2002\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47467916263677,"sku":"9780299181840","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/Z1FqL0J3STFKL2dlbVpIb3FGNS80QT09.webp?v=1777281444","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/summer-up-north-henry-aaron-and-the-legend-of-eau-claire-baseball-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}