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Grassroots baseball : where legends begin

(2019)

By: Fruth, Jean

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:

796.357/FRUTH,J

Availability

Locations	Call Number	Status
Adult Nonfiction	796.357/FRUTH,J	Available

Details

PUBLISHED

New York, NY : Sports Publishing, [2019]

DESCRIPTION

223 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 25 x 34 cm

ISBN/ISSN

9781683583257, 1683583256, 9781683583257

LANGUAGE

English

NOTES

Foreword / Steve Wulf -- Introduction / Cal Ripken, Jr. -- Dominican Republic / Vladimir Guerrero -- New York / Whitey Ford -- Mexico / Fernando Valenzuela -- Mobile, Alabama / Hank Aaron -- Japan / Ichiro Suzuki -- Cape Cod / Craig Biggio -- Oakland / Rickey Henderson -- Cuba / Tony Pérez -- Williamsport, Pennsylvania / Randy Johnson -- Puerto Rico / Iván Rodríguez -- Tampa, Florida / Wade Boggs -- Caribbean series / Juan Marichal -- Aberdeen, Maryland / Cal Ripken, Jr. -- Curaçao / Hensley Meulens -- Texas / Nolan Ryan -- Afterword / Johnny Bench

A collection of over 250 images by photographer Jean Fruth capturing amateur baseball and its players in the US and around the world, with each chapter beginning with an essay by a baseball legend sharing his memories of starting out in baseball