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.
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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
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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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