Description

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Able to Play shares the inspiring stories of four baseball players. Mordecai “Three Finger”
Brown, Ron Santo, Jim Abbott, and Curtis Pride faced physical challenges other
players didn’t have. With determination and guts, they didn’t just overcome; they
excelled. This book is a game-changing celebration of overcoming odds.

About the Author

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Glenn Stout is a writer, author, and editor, and served as series editor of The Best American Sports Writing, and founding editor of The Year’s Best Sports Writing. He is also the author of Tiger Girl and the Candy Kid, Fenway 1912, Nine Months at Ground Zero, and many other award-winning and best-selling books. He also served as a consultant on the Disney+ film adaptation of Young Woman and the Sea. Stout lives in Lake Champlain in Vermont.

Praise For…

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"This is a book that can be read for research or fun and will have broad appeal among sports fans."--School Library Journal "In clean, fast-moving prose, Stout outlines the injuries, medical conditions, and birth defects that affected the men, the challenges and setbacks they faced, and their triumphs. Equal parts inspirational and informative."--Publishers Weekly Praise for Good Sports:  "Give this to fans of Matt Christopher, Mike Lupica, and Dan Gutman."—Booklist

"Accessible and inspirational."—Publishers Weekly

"Never patronizing, [Stout] captures both grit and glory."—Kirkus Reviews —