Cover of The Ticket Out: Darryl Strawberry and the Boys of Crenshaw

The Ticket Out: Darryl Strawberry and the Boys of Crenshaw

The year was 1979 and the fifteen teenagers on the Crenshaw High Cougars were the most talented team in the history of high school baseball. Most of the team were drafted into professional baseball. Two of them, Darryl Strawberry and Chris Brown, would reunite as teammates on a National League All-Star roster. But Michael Sokolove's The Ticket Outis more a story of promise denied than of dreams fulfilled.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 320 pages

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