Arlene Marcley

Shoeless Joe and the Mill Hill Kids (eBook, ePUB)

Illustrator: Blue Berry Illustrations

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Times were tough for everyone in 1938. The Great Depression had left people with barely enough money for food, much less life's little pleasures. But that didn't stop the kids growing up in textile mill villages across the South from having fun.

Ten-year-old Charlie Miller and his pals loved to play baseball. They made balls out of rocks, cotton, and twine, and whittled bats from sturdy pine limbs. Their team was the Smackers, and their archrivals were the Dogtown Dogs.

Despite his love for the game, Charlie was not very good at it. Splinter Rawlings, village bully and leader of the Dogs, taunted Charlie and made fun of him. "You couldn't hit a ball with a two-by-four," Splinter would say to him. That hurt Charlie's feelings, and he vowed to become a better hitter.

Charlie heard about a local man named Jackson who had played baseball in the Big Leagues and sought him out for advice. Little did Charlie know that his game was about to change, for the old man was a legend-a legend called "Shoeless Joe."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: LifeRich Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 44
• Altersempfehlung: ab 9 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781489714824
• Artikelnr.: 52645984

Autorenporträt

Born in Blakely, Georgia, Arlene Marcley grew up in an Air Force family. Her father coached USAF baseball teams in Germany and England. Arlenes knowledge of baseball and love of history enticed her to learn more about one of the greatest baseball players of all time, Shoeless Joe Jackson. In 1998, after meeting Joe Jacksons sister, Gertrude Jackson Trammell, and Jacksons good friends, Joe and Kate Anders, Arlene knew she wanted to promote the story of Shoeless Joe. While working as Executive Assistant to the Mayor of Greenville, South Carolina, she held several annual exhibits about Jackson at City Hall and then spearheaded the creation of a bronze statue of Jackson which was dedicated in 2002. She founded the Shoeless Joe Jackson Museum which opened in 2008, and is a must see destination for visitors to Greenville. Arlene and her husband live on a small farm in Greenville County, SC.