Willie Horton: Detroit's Own Willie the Wonder

by Grant Eldridge and Karen Elizabeth Bush

The story of baseball legend Willie Horton. The 1968 Detroit Tigers always will mean something very special to the city of Detroit. No one player is a better symbol of the relationship between the '68 team and the city than is Willie Horton. When eight-year-old Willie was walking the six miles from his home in Stonega, Virginia to neighboring Appalachia to play baseball, he never dreamed that one day he would star in a major league World Series. The...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814330258
• ISBN13: 9780814330258
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7