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Author Schuppe, Jonathan.

Title A chance to win : boyhood, baseball, and the struggle for redemption in the inner city / Jonathan Schuppe.

Publication Info. New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2013.

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  363.45 SCHUPPE    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  796.357 SCH86    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  796.357 SCHUPPE    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  363.4509 SCHUPPE    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 274 pages ; 25 cm
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.
Subject Little League baseball -- New Jersey -- Newark.
Drug addicts -- Rehabilitation -- New Jersey -- Newark.
Drug dealers -- New Jersey -- Newark.
Poor children -- New Jersey -- Newark.
Street life -- New Jersey -- Newark.
ISBN 9780805092875 hardback
0805092870 hardback
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