A chance to win
boyhood, baseball, and the struggle for redemption in the inner city
by Jonathan Schuppe
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"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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Drug addicts, Drug dealers, GPA. LC, Rehabilitation, Drug traffic, Little League baseball, African Americans, Drug addicts, rehabilitation, African americans, new jersey, New jersey, social conditions, Problem children, Paraplegics, Newark (n.j.), Poor children, Street lifePeople
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A Chance to Win: An Ex-Con, a Little League Team, and the Quest to Redeem an American City
May 13, 2014, Picador
paperback
125005009X 9781250050090
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A chance to win: boyhood, baseball, and the struggle for redemption in the inner city
2013, Henry Holt and Co.
in English
- 1st ed.
0805092870 9780805092875
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Chance to Win: Boyhood, Baseball, and the Struggle for Redemption in the Inner City
2013, Holt & Company, Henry
in English
1429974435 9781429974431
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