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.
| ISBN | 0743278852 | | Pages | 304 | | ISBN13 | 9780743278850
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Simon & Schuster | | Weight (grammes) | 281 | | Imprint | Scribner | | Published in | New York | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 214 | | Publication date | 01 Apr 2006 | | Width (mm) | 142 | | DEWEY | 796.357092 | | Spine width (mm) | 20 | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | Academic level | General |
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"Michael Sokolove knows a good story when he sees one, and the tale he tells in "The Ticket Out" about the often sorrowful lives of Darryl Strawberry and his high school baseball teammates is powerful indeed."
-- "The Washington Post"
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