Breakout - From Prison to the Big Leagues is the biography of Ron LeFlore who as a child sold drugs and at nineteen was imprisoned for armed robbery and served thirty-eight months before being paroled in 1973. He became a baseball player and in 1978 was the people's choice to play left field for the American League in the All-Star Game at Philadelphia's Veteran's Stadium.
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