A chance to win : boyhood, baseball, and the struggle for redemption in the inner city /
"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 y...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Henry Holt and Co.,
[2013]
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| 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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| Physical Description: | 274 pages ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780805092875 0805092870 |