Never Ran, Never Will: Boyhood and Football in a Changing American Inner City

Never Ran, Never Will: Boyhood and Football in a Changing American Inner City - Hardcover

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Never Ran, Never Will: Boyhood and Football in a Changing American Inner City - Hardcover

Never Ran, Never Will: Boyhood and Football in a Changing American Inner City - Hardcover

by Albert Samaha
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Book Overview

This uplifting story of a boys' football team shines light on the under-appreciated virtues that can bloom in impoverished neighborhoods, even as nearby communities exclude them from economic progress.

Never Ran, Never Will tells the story of the working-class, mostly black neighborhood of Brownsville, Brooklyn; its proud youth football team, the Mo Better Jaguars; and the young boys who are often at the center of both. Oomz, Gio, Hart, and their charismatic, vulnerable friends, come together on a dusty football field. All around them their community is threatened by violence, poverty, and the specter of losing their homes to gentrification. Their passionate, unpaid coaches teach hard lessons about surviving American life with little help from the outside world, cultivating in their players the perseverance and courage to make it.

Football isn't everybody's ideal way to find the American dream, but for some kids it's the surest road there is. The Mo Better Jaguars team offers a refuge from the gang feuding that consumes much of the streets and a ticket to a better future in a country where football talent remains an exceptionally valuable commodity. If the team can make the regional championships, prestigious high schools and colleges might open their doors to the players.

Never Ran, Never Will is a complex, humane story that reveals the changing world of an American inner city and a group of unforgettable boys in the middle of it all.
ISBN9781610398688
Author Albert Samaha
PublisherPublicAffairs
GenreEducation, Sports, and Society & culture
FormatHardcover
PublishedSeptember 2018
LanguageENG- English
Pages368
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Education Nonfiction Social Science Sports & Recreation

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Never Ran, Never Will: Boyhood and Football in a Changing American Inner City

Never Ran, Never Will: Boyhood and Football in a Changing American Inner City - Hardcover

Never Ran, Never Will: Boyhood and Football in a Changing American Inner City - Hardcover

By Albert Samaha

About Albert Samaha

Albert Samaha is an investigative journalist and inequality editor at BuzzFeed News. A Whiting Foundation Creative Nonfiction Grant recipient, he is also the author of Never Ran, Never Will: Boyhood and Football in a Changing American Inner City, which was a finalist for the 2019 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing. He lives in Brooklyn.

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