{"product_id":"108-stitches-a-girl-grows-up-with-baseball-9781682831403","title":"108 Stitches: A Girl Grows Up with Baseball","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Addie Beth Denton\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Texas Tech University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Texas Tech University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Women\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe story of baseball is often told by the players and the managers whose faces we recognize. Those storytellers are always men. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut this baseball story is a girl's coming-of-age memoir. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAddie Beth Denton's \u003ci\u003e108 Stitches\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e108 Stitches\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Texas Tech University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45124956323991,"sku":"9781682831403","price":1693.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781682831403.webp?v=1767901976","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/108-stitches-a-girl-grows-up-with-baseball-9781682831403","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}