A chance to win : boyhood, baseball, and the struggle for redemption in the inner city / Jonathan Schuppe.
2013
HV5840.U6 N49 2013 (Mapit)
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A chance to win : boyhood, baseball, and the struggle for redemption in the inner city / Jonathan Schuppe.
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Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780805092875 hardcover
0805092870 hardcover
0805092870 hardcover
Publication Details
New York : Henry Holt and Co., c2013.
Language
English
Description
274 p. ; 25 cm
Call Number
HV5840.U6 N49 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification
363.45092 B
Summary
"When Rodney Mason, an ex-con drug dealer from Newark's rough South Ward, was shot and paralyzed, he vowed to turn his life around. A former high-school pitching ace with a 93 mph fastball, Mason decided to form a Little League team to help boys avoid the street life that had claimed his youth and mobility. Predictably, the players struggle--they endure poverty, unstable family lives with few positive male role models, failing schools, and dangerous neighborhoods--but through the fists and tears, lopsided losses, and rare victories, this bunch of misfits becomes a team, and in doing so gives the community something to root for"--Amazon.com.
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