Hardball

a season in the projects

Author: Daniel Coyle
ISBN: 0399138676

In the heart of Cabrini-Green, Chicago's most notorious housing project, a group of kids and their white-collar coaches triumph over the odds through Little League baseball. A narrative tour de force that reveals not only a deeply troubling image of the way things are, but also a glimpse of the way they might be.

Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Publish Date: 1993

Subjects: Baseball for children - Illinois - Chicago, Baseball for children/ Illinois/ Chicago, Baseball for children, City children - Recreation - Illinois, City children/ Recreation/ Illinois, City children, First Chicago Near North Kikuyus (Baseball team), Inner cities - Illinois - Chicago, Inner cities/ Illinois/ Chicago, Inner cities, Social Science / Sociology / Urban, Social Science / Children's Studies, Sports & Recreation / Baseball / General

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Cross-Cultural Center (Location: Biography (BIO))