Grassroots baseball : where legends begin /
Fruth, Jean,
Grassroots baseball : where legends begin / photographs by Jean Fruth ; introduction by Cal Ripken, Jr. ; foreword by Steve Wulf ; afterword by Johnny Bench. - 223 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 25 x 34 cm
Foreword / Steve Wulf -- Introduction / Cal Ripken, Jr. -- Dominican Republic / Vladimir Guerrero -- New York / Whitey Ford -- Mexico / Fernando Valenzuela -- Mobile, Alabama / Hank Aaron -- Japan / Ichiro Suzuki -- Cape Cod / Craig Biggio -- Oakland / Rickey Henderson -- Cuba / Tony Pérez -- Williamsport, Pennsylvania / Randy Johnson -- Puerto Rico / Iván Rodríguez -- Tampa, Florida / Wade Boggs -- Caribbean series / Juan Marichal -- Aberdeen, Maryland / Cal Ripken, Jr. -- Curaçao / Hensley Meulens -- Texas / Nolan Ryan -- Afterword / Johnny Bench.
A collection of over 250 images by photographer Jean Fruth capturing amateur baseball and its players in the US and around the world, with each chapter beginning with an essay by a baseball legend sharing his memories of starting out in baseball.
9781683584193 1683584198
Baseball--Pictorial works.
Baseball--History.
Illustrated works.
Grassroots baseball : where legends begin / photographs by Jean Fruth ; introduction by Cal Ripken, Jr. ; foreword by Steve Wulf ; afterword by Johnny Bench. - 223 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 25 x 34 cm
Foreword / Steve Wulf -- Introduction / Cal Ripken, Jr. -- Dominican Republic / Vladimir Guerrero -- New York / Whitey Ford -- Mexico / Fernando Valenzuela -- Mobile, Alabama / Hank Aaron -- Japan / Ichiro Suzuki -- Cape Cod / Craig Biggio -- Oakland / Rickey Henderson -- Cuba / Tony Pérez -- Williamsport, Pennsylvania / Randy Johnson -- Puerto Rico / Iván Rodríguez -- Tampa, Florida / Wade Boggs -- Caribbean series / Juan Marichal -- Aberdeen, Maryland / Cal Ripken, Jr. -- Curaçao / Hensley Meulens -- Texas / Nolan Ryan -- Afterword / Johnny Bench.
A collection of over 250 images by photographer Jean Fruth capturing amateur baseball and its players in the US and around the world, with each chapter beginning with an essay by a baseball legend sharing his memories of starting out in baseball.
9781683584193 1683584198
Baseball--Pictorial works.
Baseball--History.
Illustrated works.