{"product_id":"aisle-228-9781622889556","title":"Aisle 228","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAisle 228\u003c\/i\u003e is a book of poems about the Chicago Cubs and listening to baseball on the radio. The speaker also details attending games with her father\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003eThe book highlights milestones across baseball in the past 70 years and culminates in the Cubs 2016 World Series win. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Sandra Marchetti knows that baseball, like life, is struggle punctuated by victories but ending in failure. This is a fine book of verse.\" \u003cbr\u003e John Thorn, Official Historian, Major League Baseball \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Sandra Marchetti writes like a poet who knows the strike zone. There was a time when being a Chicago Cub fan was another way of romancing the blues. Disappointment was only surpassed by devotion to the game. I love the poems where Marchetti plays catch with her father. I like how the radio is playing throughout this book. Aisle 228 avoids the static of cliché. The poems are new and smooth like a ball ready to be rubbed by a pitcher. Sandra Marchetti writes from inside the ballpark, that holy sacred place. Let her poems guide you from the aisle to the altar.\" \u003cbr\u003e E. Ethelbert Miller, Author of \u003ci\u003eHow I Found Love Behind the Catcher's Mask\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A beautiful meditation on the highs and lows of this beloved game--both the heartbreak and elation it delivers, and how it perfectly hums in the backgrounds of our lives. Aisle 228 offers the near religious experience of finding your seat for first pitch, the prayer said before the ball leaves the mound and the bat cracks, the magic and magical thinking that keeps us believing it's (finally) our team's turn. This collection beautifully evokes our deep devotion to baseball--regardless of who we cheer for--making it clear why we keep coming back to the stands and getting on our feet to cheer.\" \u003cbr\u003e Stacey Mae Fowles, Author of \u003ci\u003eBaseball Life Advice\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stephen F. Austin University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/14\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781622889556\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88","brand":"Sandra Marchetti","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42824539963573,"sku":"9781622889556","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_120be423-aa56-41e7-aa41-fa39bddec474.jpg?v=1680621002","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/aisle-228-9781622889556","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}