"Seven-year-old Ripton Rosen on day decided to join a pick-up baseball game on a blacktop field in a park across the street from where he lived. At the end of the game, most of which he played in the deep outfield, Ripton asked his teammates if they would like to come back to his family's penthouse home for snacks and Nintendo. The kids, older and from public and subsidized housing, warily agreed, and so began a remarkable relationship between the Rosen family and five of the boys in particular, one that crossed the often unbridgeable chasms of race, class, and economic difference"--Page 2 of cover.
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