Baseball's Outcast: The Story of Ron Leflore - Hardcover
by Adam Henig
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9781538194959ISBN-10:1538194953UPC:9781538194959Book Category:Sports & Recreation, History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Baseball, African American & Black, SportsBook Topic:HistorySize:9.10 x 6.33 x 1.05 inchesWeight:1.3603Product ID:SC6KD4JCNW
Baseball's Outcast: The Story of Ron Leflore
From the prison cage to the batting cage, Ron LeFlore's journey to the major leagues was anything but ordinary.
When twenty-three-year-old Ron LeFlore played his first organized baseball game, it was in a yard at the State Prison of Southern Michigan where he was serving five to fifteen years for armed robbery. An extraordinary athlete, the Detroit native had luck on his side: his coach, a...Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9781538194959ISBN-10:1538194953UPC:9781538194959Book Category:Sports & Recreation, History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Baseball, African American & Black, SportsBook Topic:HistorySize:9.10 x 6.33 x 1.05 inchesWeight:1.3603Product ID:SC6KD4JCNW
Adam Henig is the author of the well-received Watergate's Forgotten Hero: Frank Wills, Night Watchman, which Kirkus Reviews called "powerful" and an "absorbing biography." Henig is also the author of Alex Haley's Roots: An Author's Odyssey and Baseball Under Siege: The Yankees, the Cardinals, and a Doctor's Battle to Integrate Spring Training. Henig's writings have appeared in Time, Tampa Bay...
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