Safe at Home - Hardcover

Safe at Home; The True and Inspiring Story of Chicago's Field of Dreams

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. Second printing [stated]. 261, [11] pages. Paperclip mark on fep. Bob Muzikowski is founder and president of Chicago Hope Academy, a private high school on the west side of urban Chicago seeking to serve children in high risk neighborhoods. Having achieved success as the owner of an investment and insurance company, Muzikowski has a passion for lifting kids out of desperate situations and forming them into "leaders of character." There was an empty ball field near the author's home that nobody used. So in 1991, he advertised in the community that they were starting up a baseball little league. Three hundred boys signed up the first day! Today there was a program with 1,100 kids playing on 64 teams! We've got the biggest black little league in America. The bottom line is that we connect these kids to successful, well-to-do people who can mentor them. That wasn't originally our intention; it just kind of happened. This is far more than the story of one man whom the New York Times called "the Johnny Appleseed on inner-city Little League Baseball". It is also the story of volunteers from all walks of life giving their time and energy and getting more in return than they ever imagined. It is the story of a violent world of gangs and gunfire, where drugs, prostitution, and child abuse abound, and where boys Bob has coached turn up in the obituary column. It is also the compelling account of a Little League organization that has sparked scholarship programs, community programs, and college educations and professional careers for kids who otherwise would have been lost to drugs and crime. Artikel-Nr. 75779

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