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Breakout : from prison to the big leagues

Title
Breakout : from prison to the big leagues / by Ron LeFlore with Jim Hawkins.
Author
LeFlore, Ron.
Publication
New York : Harper & Row, ©1978.

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Additional Authors
Hawkins, Jim
Description
viii, 180 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
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.
Subject
  • LeFlore, Ron
  • Baseball players > United States > Biography
  • Prisoners > United States > Biography
  • Baseball players
  • Prisoners
  • United States
Genre/Form
  • Autobiography
  • Autobiographies.
  • Biographies.
Note
  • "An Associated Features book."
  • Includes index.
Contents
Prologue -- Assault with intent to commit robbery, armed -- If you were lucky, you survived -- Dumbo, Miss Price, and Emma Mae -- The invisible man -- Let's shoot some -- B-115614 -- I ain't no farmer -- Wheeling and dealing -- Twinkle Toes Bosco -- Free at last -- Hit the ball and run -- Tony Kubek and me, on national TV -- Number one clown -- The urge to kill -- 65,500-to-1 -- An altogether different life -- Epilogue.
ISBN
  • 0060125527
  • 9780060125523
LCCN
77003759
OCLC
  • ocm03275695
  • 3275695
  • SCSB-152116
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library