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More copies of this ISBN:This title in other formats:The Ticket Out: Darryl Strawberry and the Boys of Crenshawby Michael Sokolove
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:The year was 1979 and the fifteen teenagers on the Crenshaw High Cougars were the most talented team in the history of high school baseball. They were pure ballplayers, sluggers and sweet fielders who played with unbridled joy and breathtaking skill. The national press converged on Crenshaw. So many scouts gravitated to their games that they took up most of the seats in the bleachers. Even the Crenshaw ballfield was a sight to behold — groomed by the players themselves, picked clean of every pebble, it was the finest diamond in all of inner-city Los Angeles. On the outfield fences, the gates to the outside stayed locked against the danger and distraction of the streets. Baseball, for these boys, was hope itself. They had grown up with the notion that it could somehow set things right — a vague, unexpressed, but persistent hope that even if life was rigged, baseball might be fair. And for a while it seemed they were right. Incredibly, most of of this team — even several of the boys who sat on the bench — were drafted into professional baseball. Two of them, Darryl Strawberry and Chris Brown, would reunite as teammates on a National League All-Star roster. But Michael Sokolove's The Ticket Out is more a story of promise denied than of dreams fulfilled. Because in Sokolove's brilliantly reported poignant and powerful tale, the lives of these gifted athletes intersect with the realities of being poor, urban, and black in America. What happened to these young men is a harsh reminder of the ways inspiration turns to frustration when the bats and balls are stowed and the crowd's applause dies down. Just as Friday Night Lights portrayed the impact of high school sports on the life of a Texas community, and There Are No Children Here examined the viselike grip of poverty on minority youngsters, The Ticket Out presents an unforgettable tale of families grasping for opportunities, of athletes praying for one chance to make it big, of all of us hoping that the will to succeed can triumph over the demons haunting our city streets. Review:"The Ticket Out does for baseball what the 1994 movie Hoop Dreams did for basketball." -- Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Review:"A terrific read, made to work by Sokolove's insightful reporting and deft writing." -- The Chicago Tribune Review:"The Ticket Out raises some serious questions about the meaning of fair play." -- Sports Illustrated Review:"The Ticket Out raises some serious questions about the meaning of fair play." -- Sports Illustrated Synopsis:The year was 1979 and the fifteen teenagers on the Crenshaw High Cougars were the most talented team in the history of high school baseball. Most of the team were drafted into professional baseball. Two of them, Darryl Strawberry and Chris Brown, would reunite as teammates on a National League All-Star roster. But Michael Sokolove's The Ticket Out is more a story of promise denied than of dreams fulfilled. Synopsis:A poignant and inspiring story of young boys with big sports dreams, "The Ticket Out" is a brilliantly rendered narrative of Darryl Strawberry's 1970 Crenshaw High baseball team. of photos. Table of ContentsAuthor's Note Prologue Chapter 1 Paradise Chapter 2 Go West, Then Keep On Going Chapter 3 Crenshaw Chapter 4 No Way We Lose Chapter 5 Chasing Darryl Chapter 6 Leaving L.A. Chapter 7 Called Out on Strikes Chapter 8 The Good Stuff Chapter 9 Family Afterword Acknowledgments A Note on Sources Index
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