A Chance to Win: Boyhood, Baseball, and the Struggle for Redemption in the Inner City

by Jonathan Schuppe

Book Overview

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist follows an embattled Little League team in inner-city Newark, New Jersey, revealing the complex realities of urban life in one of America's most dangerous cities 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805092870
• ISBN13: 9780805092875
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.5"