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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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108 Stitches: A Girl Grows Up with Baseball

108 Stitches: A Girl Grows Up with Baseball

Denton, Addie Beth

Paperback

Series: Texas Sports Heroes

Biographies GeneralAthletesBaseball & Softball

Publisher Price: $24.95

ISBN10: 168283140X
ISBN13: 9781682831403
Publisher: Texas Tech Univ Pr
Published: Aug 25 2022
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.41 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

The story of baseball is often told by the players and the managers whose faces we recognize. Those storytellers are always men.

But this baseball story is a girl's coming-of-age memoir.

Addie Beth Denton's 108 Stitches 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.

108 Stitches 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.

Written 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.

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