{"product_id":"108-stitches-addie-beth-denton-9781682831403","title":"108 Stitches: A Girl Grows Up with Baseball","description":"With its sprawl of teams in major, minor, and independent leagues, with its narrative interwoven with our national history, with its catalog of larger-than-life characters, baseball is always a story. \u003cp\u003eThe story of baseball is often told by the players and the managers whose faces we recognize. Those storytellers are always men. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut this baseball story is a girl's coming-of-age memoir. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAddie Beth Denton's \u003ci\u003e108 Stitches\u003c\/i\u003e reminds us of the women and girls whose lives were shaped by America's national pastime. Denton's father and uncle were baseball men: her uncle, Harry Craft, was a manager for major league franchises in Kansas City, Chicago, and Houston. As a minor league coach, Harry Craft was Mickey Mantle's first manager. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e108 Stitches\u003c\/i\u003e captures the sights, smells, and sensations of growing up with baseball from Addie Beth's unique vantage point. There are home runs, no-hitters, cantankerous old-timers, and ambitious young gunners, but there are also warmhearted family stories, adolescent melodramas, and the multifaceted experiences of girlhood lived within a man's world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten for fans young and old, male and female, Addie Beth Denton's memoir stitches together her heartfelt memories of a nostalgic period in American and baseball history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Addie Beth Denton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 168283140X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781682831403\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Texas Tech University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/25\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.59lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.41d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Addie Beth Denton","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44073183281407,"sku":"9781682831403","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bbebcfd9-3326-4518-aec2-c7189996b93e.jpg?v=1685446308","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/108-stitches-addie-beth-denton-9781682831403","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}