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Winning And Losing In Football's Forgotten Town
Crown Archetype
November 2012
On Sale: October 23, 2012
336 pages
ISBN: 0307888622
EAN: 9780307888624
Kindle: B007DKUB5O
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In a town deep in the Florida Everglades, where high
school football is the only escape, a haunted quarterback, a
returning hero, and a scholar struggle against terrible
odds.
The loamy black “muck” that surrounds Belle
Glade, Florida once built an empire for Big Sugar and
provided much of the nation's vegetables, often on the backs
of roving, destitute migrants. Many of these were children
who honed their skills along the field rows and started one
of the most legendary football programs in America. Belle
Glade’s high school team, the Glades Central Raiders, has
sent an extraordinary number of players to the National
Football League – 27 since 1985, with five of those drafted
in the first round.
The industry that gave rise to
the town and its team also spawned the chronic poverty,
teeming migrant ghettos, and violence that cripples futures
before they can ever begin. Muck City tells the story
of quarterback Mario Rowley, whose dream is to win a
championship for his deceased parents and quiet the ghosts
that haunt him; head coach Jessie Hester, the town’s first
NFL star, who returns home to “win kids, not championships”;
and Jonteria Willliams, who must build her dream of becoming
a doctor in one of the poorest high schools in the nation.
For boys like Mario, being a Raider is a one-shot window for
escape and a college education. Without football, Jonteria
and the rest must make it on brains and fortitude alone. For
the coach, good intentions must battle a town’s obsession to
win above all else.
Beyond the Friday night lights,
this book is an engrossing portrait of a community mired in
a shameful past and uncertain future, but with the fierce
will to survive, win, and escape to a better life
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