Baseball's Outcast: The Story of Ron LeFlore

From the prison cage to the batting cage, Ron LeFlore's journey to the major leagues was anything but ordinary.

When twenty-three-year-old Ron LeFlore played his first organized baseball game, it was in a yard at the State Prison of Southern Michigan where he was serving five to fifteen years for armed robbery. An extraordinary athlete, the Detroit native had luck on his side: his coach, a convicted felon, had connections to the Detroit Tigers. Within three-and-a-half years, Ron went from a ...