The Ticket Out: Darryl Strawberry and the Boys of Crenshaw
                        
                     
                                            
                            
                                                                by Michael Sokolove
                                                                
                                    2021-01-10 06:15:41
                                
                                
                             
                         
                                     
                
                    The Ticket Out: Darryl Strawberry and the Boys of Crenshaw
                                            
                                                            by Michael Sokolove
                                                        
                                2021-01-10 06:15:41
                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                                                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, wou...
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                                                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 Out is more a story of promise denied than of dreams fulfilled.
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