Title: A chance to win
Description: "When Rodney Mason, an ex-con drug dealer from Newark's rough South Ward, was shot and paralyzed, he vowed to turn his life around. A former high-school pitching ace with a 93 mph fastball, Mason decided to form a Little League team to help boys avoid the street life that had claimed his youth and mobility. Predictably, the players struggle--they endure poverty, unstable family lives with few positive male role models, failing schools, and dangerous neighborhoods--but through the fists and tears, lopsided losses, and rare victories, this bunch of misfits becomes a team, and in doing so gives the community something to root for"--Amazon.com.
Subjects: Drug addicts, Drug dealers, GPA. LC, Rehabilitation, Drug traffic, Little League baseball, African Americans, Drug addicts, rehabilitation, African americans, new jersey, New jersey, social conditions, Problem children, Paraplegics, Newark (n.j.), Poor children, Street life
Places: New Jersey, Newark, Newark (N.J.)
People: Rodney Mason