A Chance to Win : Boyhood, Baseball, and the Struggle for Redemption in the Inner City

from dmcco01

I thoroughly enjoyed this engaging account of the struggles of four men and boys connected via the Newark Little League. I felt Schuppe painted an accurate picture of the struggles of the inner-city without sugar-coating or sensationalizing the details. I was also pleased to see that Schuppe didn...

from pinklady60

A young man brought up on the streets of Newark, New Jersey, has promise as a future baseball player. But that dream dies when he is shot and paralyzed during a drive-by shooting. After intensive rehabilitation therapy, he makes the effort to stop using and dealing drugs and to turn his life arou...

from SamSattler

Much to the chagrin of Major League Baseball and baseball coaches at every level, the sport has pretty much been abandoned by the black youth of America's inner cities. This is not a new problem, and Major League executives have thrown a lot of money at the problem in recent years by building you...

from eo206

A Chance to Win is an uplifting read. Baseball is the redeeming sport for the cast of kids and a paralyzed former drug dealer in poverty ridden Newark, NJ. Jonathan Schuppe, a crime reporter, got hooked on the story of Rodney and his efforts to find a meaning in his life after he was paralyzed by...

from DeborahYaffe

Jonathan Schuppe's book is a moving story about what's been called "the other America": a place where children barely in their teens routinely confront unspeakable loss and grief; where adults feel, with some justice, that the system is stacked against them; and where the public institutions -- e...