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Breakout: From Prison to the Big Leagues

by Ron LeFlore

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Autobiography of Ron LeFlore, who played on a prison baseball team while serving a sentence for armed robbery and later became a star player for the Detroit Tigers.

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YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults (Selection – 1978)

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Related movies: One in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story (1978 | IMDb)

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Genres: Sports and Leisure, Biography & Memoir, Nonfiction, Teen, Anthropology
DDC/MDS: 796.357 — Arts & recreation Recreation, sports, and performing arts Sports Ball sports Ball and stick sports Baseball
LCC: GV865 .L37 .A33 — Geography, Anthropology and Recreation Recreation. Leisure Recreation. Leisure Sports Ball games: Baseball, football, golf, etc.

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Languages: English
Media: Paper
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Published: 1978
Genres: Sports and Leisure, Biography & Memoir, Nonfiction, Teen, Anthropology
DDC/MDS: 796.357
LCC: GV865 .L37 .A33

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