A summer up North : Henry Aaron and the legend of Eau Claire baseball / Jerry Poling ; with a foreword by Allan H. (Bud) Selig.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Poling, Jerry, 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Baseball players--United States--Biography.

Baseball players.

Baseball--Wisconsin--Eau Claire--History--20th century.

Baseball.

Northern League of Professional Baseball.

Aaron, Hank, 1934-2021.

Aaron, Hank.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 187 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Illustrations

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Prologue

Chapter 1: North to the Northern League

Chapter 2: Eau Claire Baseball

Chapter 3: On the Road in the Northern League

Chapter 4: Statuesque

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-178) and index.

ISBN:

9786612269110

9781282269118

1282269119

9780299181833

0299181839

OCLC:

606926044