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The Rise and Fall of John Myers
John Myers was from the Kowir reservation out near Riverside California just one of many Indian kids that love to play baseball as a scrappy youth. He went around to some colleges they were found out he hadn't even graduated high school but there he was playing for Dartmouth. Aragon wanted to share the story of young readers and the accomplishments of these men who also have very different paths that they get to the game by at that time.
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