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Rising Son: The Mets, the Yankees, and My Journey to the Big Leagues (Larger Print)
Rising Son The Mets the Yankees and My Journey to the Big Leagues - Larger Print Author:Willie Randolph, Wayne Coffey Willie Randolph's story personifies a remarkable American passage -- one family's journey from slavery to freedom, poverty to prosperity, illiteracy to the Ivy League in the span of a few generations. In Rising Son, he shares the details of his life for the first time. — The oldest of five siblings, Randolph was delivered by a ... more »midwife in a wooden roadside shack in Holly Hill, SC, with no plumbing, no running water, and a single bare light bulb. A few years later his parents moved the family north to Brooklyn, where Randolph grew up in a housing project riddled with drugs, crime, and violence. Walking a straight and narrow path, he escaped the mean streets via the grassless ballfields of New York City. Drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1972, he made his mark as the second baseman for the New York Yankees from 1976 to 1988. But this driven, gifted young man wasn't alone. His parents, his high school coach, and Yankees manager Billy Martin helped him become the man he was destined to be.
Here, too, are Randolph's baseball years, from playing amid the turbulence of the Bronx clubhouse owned by George Steinbrenner to his decade-long struggle to become a big-league coach and manager, including his controversial seasons leading the Mets. In Rising Son, Randolph lets down his guard and lays bare his soul, allowing fans a moving and unforgettable glimpse into his amazing life.
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