The Ticket Out

A thought-provoking look at the 1979 Crenshaw High School varsity baseball team profiles the young athletes from Los Angeles who represented the finest collection of high-school baseball talent in history, following the individual stories of each member of the team, including Darryl Strawberry and Chris Brown, from their high school careers to the present day. 75,000 first printing. First serial, The New York Times Magazine.