{"product_id":"108-stitches","title":"108 Stitches","description":"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. \u003cp\u003e\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\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut this baseball story is a girl's coming-of-age memoir.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\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\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\u003e\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 A \u0026 M University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57259323916632,"sku":"9781682831403","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781682831403.jpg?v=1779867946","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/108-stitches","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}