{"product_id":"summer-up-north-jerry-poling-9780299181840","title":"Summer Up North: Henry Aaron and the Legend of Eau Claire Baseball","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jerry Poling\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0299181847\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780299181840\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Wisconsin Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/18\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.52w x 0.49d","brand":"Jerry Poling","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43995508834559,"sku":"9780299181840","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c4b4c906-78d2-4fcc-a14c-b2351fc68fdf.jpg?v=1683336218","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/summer-up-north-jerry-poling-9780299181840","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}