Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 I had a teacher who was a mystery to me until I found out he had coached me when I was twelve. I had never thought of him as a coach, but as a teacher. He had a rare ability to enter a child's mind, and he stayed there forever. #2 The Isidore Newman School is a private school in New Orleans. It was founded in 1903 as a manual training school for Jewish orphans. The current headmaster, Scott McLeod, said that the parents' willingness to intercede on the kids' behalf, to take the kids' side, to protect them, was becoming more and more common. #3 When we first laid eyes on him, we had no idea who he was. But the eighth-grade basketball team he was coaching was a parallel universe, a universe where our coach was a street fighter and his players were forced to run wind sprints. #4 I was 14 when I first met Fitz, and he became my baseball and basketball coach when I was in eighth grade. I was extremely intimidated by him, as I represented an extreme example of our team's general inability to intimidate the opposition

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