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Sandlot Baseball History

A few years ago, we put together a book just for the fun of it called, Sandlot Stories. Working with a friend, Steve Young, we began asking our friends if they had a story about playing sandlot baseball as a kid that they would want to write and put in this book. Stopping everyone we knew, some people said "No, sorry" but others looked at us and said, "Yes, as a matter of fact, I do have a sandlot story."

Each person went off to write their story. Then one by one they brought them back and an amazing thing occurred. Somehow, through friends and friends of friends, we managed to get stories going back all the way to the early 1900's. The stories are spread across the US from the East Coast to West; Hawaii to Alaska; and even Japan. Some stores are of the rules used in their sandlot game, while others are of the friends and neighborhood relationships.

ARose Books is proud to have Sandlot Stories listed for all time in the ABNER library catalogue of the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Sandlot Stories was accepted into the research library after passing through three committee reviews because it documents the rules children used to play sandlot baseball all across the US and going back almost 100 years in history.

We are also proud that this book is interesting for adults as well as children and was carefully edited to suit both. Give this book to any baseball fan, young or old to enjoy and bring back those memories of long, warm summer days when the only concern was the game at hand and how long you could play on with the setting sun.

Sandlot Stories by Marcella Parsons and Steven Hayes Young, is a series of stories written by everyday people playing sandlot ball as a kid. Each story is woven around a place; a town, a backyard, or a street. Each story gives a feel for the time - 1910 through to the 1980's. Some stories are focused on the game, the rules, even the ball. And some stories are about the people and the relationships. This is a book of hometown America through sandlot baseball.

The cover shows a child dreaming of what he or she could be - a major leaguer!

To preview Sandlot Stories: see Google Book Search

Sandlot Stories was translated into Japanese by Mariko Inoue. The book is published in traditional Japanese fashion reading vertically down the page from right to left.

Mariko spent a year working to translate each story so that each author's original use of everyday English was translated as closely as possible into everyday Japanese. It was her intent to translate the book so that the stories had the feelings and language that the author intended.

Sandlot Stories in Japanese is not just a translation, it is a work of art.

To preview Sandlot Stories - Japanese Edition: see Google Book Search (We apologize but Google Books in Print Preview has displayed this book incorrectly! The cover and a title page are upside down in their preview, but we assure it does print correctly from our printer Lightning Source! ~ARose Books)

 
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