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Baseball's Outcast : The Story of Ron Leflore.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Henig, Adam, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- LeFlore, Ron.
- Baseball.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (321 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2026.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2026.
- System Details:
- text file rdaft
- Summary:
- From the prison cage to the batting cage, Ron LeFlore's journey to the major leagues was anything but ordinary. For the first time, author Adam Henig tells the moving story of how a talented, untrained athlete from Detroit overcame trauma, drugs, racism, and incarceration to become one of the best baseball players of his era.
- Contents:
- The LeFlores
- Harry and Ron
- Young, Uneducated, and Reckless
- Jackson
- Twinkle Toes LeFlore
- The Tryout
- Freedom
- A Story from Day One
- Becoming a Tiger
- A Star Emerges
- One in a Million
- Le Expos.
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-37794-8
- 979-82-16-37793-1
- 1-5381-9496-1
- 9781538194966
- OCLC:
- 1559219198
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