My Losing Season
Author: Pat Conroy
In 1954, in Orlando, Florida, nine-year-old Pat Conroy discovered the game of basketball. Orlando was another new hometown for a military kid who had spent his life transferring from one home to another; he was yet again among strangers, still looking for his first Florida friends, but when the ‘new kid’ got his hands on the ball near the foul line of that unfamiliar court….Read More
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