The Ticket Out Darryl Strawberry and the Boys

The year was 1979 and the fifteen teenagers on the Crenshaw High Cougars were the most talented team in the history of high school baseball. Most of the team were drafted into professional baseball. Two of them, Darryl Strawberry and Chris Brown, would reunite as teammates on a National League All-Star roster. But Michael Sokolove'sThe Ticket Outis more a story of promise denied than of dreams fulfilled.

Michael Sokolove is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and the author of Hustle: The Myth, Life, and Lies of Pete Rose. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with his wife and their three children.

Author's Note

ix

Prologue

1

(6)

Paradise

7

(13)

Go West, Then Keep On Going

20

(30)

Crenshaw

50

(25)

No Way We Lose

75

(18)

Chasing Darryl

93

(55)

Leaving L.A.

148

(41)

Called Out on Strikes

189

(29)

The Good Stuff

218

(23)

Family

241

(32)

Afterword

273

(8)

Acknowledgments

281

(2)

A Note on Sources

283

(4)

Index

287

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The Ticket Out Darryl Strawberry and the Boys of Crenshaw

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