Summer up North: Henry Aaron and the Legend of Eau Claire Baseball

Jerry Poling

Summer up North: Henry Aaron and the Legend of Eau Claire Baseball
Format
Paperback
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Country
United States
Published
23 July 2002
Pages
216
ISBN
9780299181840

Summer up North: Henry Aaron and the Legend of Eau Claire Baseball

Jerry Poling

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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.

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