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 childhood baseball story about playing sandlot ball as a kid that they would want to write and put in our 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 baseball stories going back all the way to the early 1900s telling the history of sandlot ball. These baseball memoirs are spread across the US from the East Coast to West; Hawaii to Alaska; and even Japan. Some 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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