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1 online resource (xxii, 187 pages) : illustrations |
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Book collections on Project MUSE
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| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: Ch. 1 North to the Northern League -- Ch. 2 Eau Claire Baseball -- Ch. 3 On the Road in the Northern League -- Ch. 4 Statuesque |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-178) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Aaron, Hank, 1934-2021
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| SUBJECT |
Aaron, Hank, 1934-2021 fast |
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Northern League of Professional Baseball.
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Northern League of Professional Baseball fast |
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Baseball players -- United States -- Biography
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Baseball -- Wisconsin -- Eau Claire -- History -- 20th century
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Sports.
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SPORTS & RECREATION -- Baseball -- History.
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Baseball
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Baseball players
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United States
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Wisconsin -- Eau Claire
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Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2002003833 |
| ISBN |
9780299181833 |
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0299181839 |
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0299181847 |
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9780299181840 |
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