In East St. Louis, Illinois, a city where most young men wind up on the streets, in jail, or dead, a man named Bob Shannon has coached a team that has sent dozens of its players to college on football scholarships. This is the true story of a high school coach who won't give up. Author Kevin Horrigan, former sports editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, profiles a remarkable man against the setting of a heartbreaking city.
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In East St. Louis, Illinois, a city where most young men wind up on the streets, in jail, or dead, a man named Bob Shannon has coached a team that has sent dozens of its players to college on football scholarships. This is the true story of a high school coach who won't give up. Author Kevin Horrigan, former sports editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, profiles a remarkable man against the setting of a heartbreaking city.
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Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Book. Signed By Bob Shannon First edition, first printing, hardcover. ix, 333 pages. Acknowledgments. Appendices. Near fine in a near fine mylar-covered dust jacket. Inscribed and SIGNED by Coach Shannon on the half-title page. Bob Shannon, the African American football coach in East St. Louis, Il. -one of the most segregated communities in America-has offered his players one way out of the city's grinding poverty through a combination of sport and discipline.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed. First Edition. SIGNED BY BOB SHANNON & KEVIN HORRIGAN; first edition hardcover; no marks; very nice jacket; A3S5.
