Junior Library Guild

• With descriptive, well-researched writing, Glenn Stout makes each sports figure’s story suspenseful and engrossing.
• Readers will be inspired by the sacrifices these four athletes made in both their professional and personal lives because of their military service.
• Covers a variety of time periods, ranging from Ted Williams’s service in Korea in the 1950s to Pat Tillman’s deployment in Afghanistan in 2004.
• Pat Tillman’s story especially highlights the complexities of military service, from his uncertainty over the justness of the U.S.-led invasion in Iraq to the unexpected risks he faced in combat.