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9780451201041

Born to Play

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  • ISBN13:

    9780451201041

  • ISBN10:

    0451201043

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-04-01
  • Publisher: Signet
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Summary

The baseball star offers an account of his life and explains how strong faith, a loving family, and powerful optimism have led him to overcome poverty, injuries, the violent death of his brother, and cancer

Author Biography

Ralph Wiley is a journalist, television commentator, and sportswriter whose many credits include nine years as Senior Writer for Sports Illustrated and 6 years on ESPN's The Sports Reporters. He is the author of several books including Why Black People Tend to Shout (Penguin) and Best Seat in the House (with Spike Lee) which was adapted as the 1998 Disney/Touchstone film He Got Game.

Table of Contents

Spring
Spring 1998 Trouble at Workp. 3
Spring 1980 Youthp. 24
Spring 1983 Apprenticep. 55
Spring 1997 Relocationp. 74
Summer
Summer 1997 Cancerp. 91
Summer 1972 Remembering Things Pastp. 116
Summer 1986 Hitting the Big Timep. 124
Summer 1987 Overnight Sensationp. 138
Fall
Fall 1997 Lossp. 157
Fall 1990 Winning It Allp. 185
Winter
Winter 1993 Has-Beenp. 235
Winter 1996 Sabbaticalp. 247
Winter 1998 Coming from Behindp. 280
Winter 1999 Reborn Again to Playp. 310
Afterwordp. 321
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