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Stout, Glenn.
FROM HARDSHIPS TO CHAMPIONSHIPS
New York : Sandpiper/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013
IL 5-8, RL 5.3
ISBN 0547887353
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Read the true stories of baseball champions Babe Ruth, Jimmy Piersall, Ron LeFlore, Joe Torre, and Torii Hunter and how they were able to overcome hardships such as abuse, neglect, prison, and mental illness to be the champions they were.  An inspiring book of triumph that will encourage you to keep pursuing your dreams no matter what life throws at you.  (Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award, 2015)

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