Jennings, Jay

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Carry the rock

race, football, and the soul of an American city
2010
Chronicles a season of Little Rock Central High School football, comparing and contrasting the race relations of the team to 1957 when the school was first desegregated, to show what has and has not changed in fifty years.

Teamwork

united in victory
1990
Profiles athletes who feel their success is due to teamwork. Includes Jackie Joyner-Kersee and Bob Kersee, the 1969 New York Jets, and Candy Costie and Tracie Ruiz.

Long shots

they beat the odds
1990

Tennis and the meaning of life

a literary anthology of the game
1995

Moments of courage

bravery under pressure
1991
Examines the lives and hard work of five athletes who displayed courage in facing great obstacles.

Comebacks

heroic returns
1991
Profiles five athletes who made courageous comebacks in their sports careers: Greg LeMond, Rocky Bleier, Olga Korbut, Dave Dravecky, and Babe Didrikson Zaharias.
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