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    Able to Play: Overcoming Physical Challenges
    Able to Play: Overcoming Physical Challenges
    Able to Play: Overcoming Physical Challenges
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    Able to Play: Overcoming Physical Challenges

    By Glenn Stout

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    Able to Play shares the inspiring stories of four baseball players. Mordecai “Three Finger” Brown, Ron Santo, Jim Abbott, and Curtis Pride faced physical challenges other
    players didn’t have. With determination and guts, they didn’t just overcome; they excelled. This book is a game-changing celebration of overcoming odds.

    This ebook includes a sample chapter of Good Sportsbook, SOLDIER ATHLETES.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateApr 3, 2012
    ISBN9780547822839
    Able to Play: Overcoming Physical Challenges
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    Glenn Stout

    Glenn Stout is a writer, author, and editor, and served as series editor of The Best American Sports Writing, and founding editor of The Year’s Best Sports Writing. He is also the author of Tiger Girl and the Candy Kid, Fenway 1912, Nine Months at Ground Zero, and many other award-winning and best-selling books. He also served as a consultant on the Disney+ film adaptation of Young Woman and the Sea. Stout lives in Lake Champlain in Vermont.

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