An edition of Hardball: A Season in the Projects (1993)

Hardball

a season in the projects

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An edition of Hardball: A Season in the Projects (1993)

Hardball

a season in the projects

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Four blocks from Chicago's affluent Gold Coast, the Cabrini-Green housing project looms, a notorious inner city of poverty, violence, and despair. Not an easy place to play ball. But in 1991 two men - one black, one white - started a Little League, twenty teams sponsored by Chicago corporations.

Daniel Coyle volunteered to help coach one of the teams, the First Chicago Near North Kikuyus, and the following season, he decided to record their story: fourteen remarkable children and their six coaches, an unlikely group thrown together on a baseball field in the midst of Cabrini's gang-ruled streets.

From the team's first practice to the end of all unexpectedly triumphant season, Hardball chronicles the Kikuyus, on the field and off. Coyle brings us into the lives of children both carefree and exultant at play yet disarmingly sober in the face of their family circumstances, kids startled by the sight of cows and cornfields during a trip to Iowa yet inured to the sound of gunshots at home.

With frankness and poignancy, he tells of the team's joys, losses, and small but essential victories, and of the neophyte coaches whose role moves haltingly from teaching baseball to being big brothers, disciplinarians and ultimately friends.

Hardball is a powerful story of a team's struggle against the odds, a struggle that in the end speaks to the most important concerns of our time and to the resilience of children everywhere. In the Kikuyus we see not only a deeply troubling image of the way things are, but also a hopeful glimpse of the way they might be.

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Putnam
Language
English
Pages
317

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Hardball: A Season in the Projects
February 1995, HarperCollins Publishers
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Hardball: A Season in the Projects
February 1995, HarperCollins Publishers
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1993, Putnam
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New York

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Dewey Decimal Class
796.357/62/0977311
Library of Congress
GV880.4 .C69 1993, GV880.4.C69 1993

The Physical Object

Pagination
317 p. :
Number of pages
317

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Open Library
OL1403542M
Internet Archive
hardballseasonin00coyl
ISBN 10
0399138676
LCCN
93011602
OCLC/WorldCat
28498494
Library Thing
279117
Goodreads
362315

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