Twelve Mighty Orphans

Twelve Mighty Orphans
Title Twelve Mighty Orphans PDF eBook
Author Jim Dent
Publisher Macmillan
Pages 304
Release 2007-09-04
Genre Sports & Recreation
ISBN 1429919345

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Jim Dent, author of the New York Times bestselling The Junction Boys, returns with his most powerful story of human courage and determination. More than a century ago, a school was constructed in Fort Worth, Texas, for the purpose of housing and educating the orphans of Texas Freemasons. It was a humble project that for years existed quietly on a hillside east of town. Life at the Masonic Home was about to change, though, with the arrival of a lean, bespectacled coach by the name of Rusty Russell. Here was a man who could bring rain in the midst of a drought. Here was a man who, in virtually no time at all, brought the orphans' story into the homes of millions of Americans. In the 1930s and 1940s, there was nothing bigger in Texas high school football than the Masonic Home Mighty Mites—a group of orphans bound together by hardship and death. These youngsters, in spite of being outweighed by at least thirty pounds per man, were the toughest football team around. They began with nothing—not even a football—yet in a few years were playing for the state championship on the highest level of Texas football. This is a winning tribute to a courageous band of underdogs from a time when America desperately needed fresh hope and big dreams. The Mighty Mites remain a notable moment in the long history of American sports. Just as significant is the depth of the inspirational message. This is a profound lesson in fighting back and clinging to faith. The real winners in Texas high school football were not the kids from the biggest schools, or the ones wearing the most expensive uniforms. They were the scrawny kids from a tiny orphanage who wore scarred helmets and faded jerseys that did not match, kids coached by a devoted man who lived on peanuts and drove them around in a smoke-belching old truck. In writing a story of unforgettable characters and great football, Jim Dent has come forward to reclaim his place as one of the top sports authors in America today. A remarkable and inspirational story of an orphanage and the man who created one of the greatest football teams Texas has ever known . . . this is their story—the original Friday Night Lights. "This just might be the best sports book ever written. Jim Dent has crafted a story that will go down as one of the most artistic, one of the most unforgettable, and one of the most inspirational ever. Twelve Mighty Orphans will challenge Hoosiers as the feel-good sports story of our lifetime. Naturally, being from Texas, I am biased. Hooray for the Mighty Mites.'' —Verne Lundquist, CBS Sports "Coach Rusty Russell and the Mighty Mites will steal your heart as they overcome every obstacle imaginable to become a respected football team. Take an orphanage, the Depression, and mix it with Texas high school football, and Jim Dent has authored another winner, this one about the ultimate underdog.'' —Brent Musburger, ABC Sports/ESPN "No state has a roll call of legendary high school football stories like we do in Texas, and, admittedly, some of those stories have been ‘expanded' over the years when it comes to the truth. But let Jim Dent tell you about the Mighty Mites of Masonic Home, the pride of Fort Worth in the dark days of the Depression. Read this book. You will think it's fiction. You will think it's a Hollywood script. But Twelve Mighty Orphans is the truth, and nothing but. It is powerful stuff. Some eighty years later, the Mighty Mites' story remains so sacred, not even a Texan would dare tamper with these facts. And Jim Dent tells it like it was." — Randy Galloway, columnist, Fort-Worth Star Telegram

Twelve Mighty Orphans

Twelve Mighty Orphans
Title Twelve Mighty Orphans PDF eBook
Author Jim Dent
Publisher Macmillan
Pages 324
Release 2008-08-19
Genre Education
ISBN 9780312384876

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From the "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Junction Boys" comes this amazing, inspirational story of a group of orphans and the man who created one of the greatest football teams Texas has ever known. 16-page b&w photo insert.

Resurrection

Resurrection
Title Resurrection PDF eBook
Author Jim Dent
Publisher Macmillan
Pages 349
Release 2009-09
Genre Sports & Recreation
ISBN 0312567219

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With passion, humor and incredible insight, Dent tracks the demise of Notre Dame football throughout the 1960s, before the team enjoys one of the biggest comebacks in the history of college football.

The Publishers Weekly

The Publishers Weekly
Title The Publishers Weekly PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 684
Release 2007
Genre American literature
ISBN

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The Twelve Minor Prophets

The Twelve Minor Prophets
Title The Twelve Minor Prophets PDF eBook
Author Carl Friedrich Keil
Publisher
Pages 530
Release 1871
Genre Bible
ISBN

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The Ante-Nicene Fathers: The twelve patriarchs, excerpts and epistles, the Clementina, Apocrypha, decretals, memoirs of Edessa and Syriac documents, remains of the first ages

The Ante-Nicene Fathers: The twelve patriarchs, excerpts and epistles, the Clementina, Apocrypha, decretals, memoirs of Edessa and Syriac documents, remains of the first ages
Title The Ante-Nicene Fathers: The twelve patriarchs, excerpts and epistles, the Clementina, Apocrypha, decretals, memoirs of Edessa and Syriac documents, remains of the first ages PDF eBook
Author Alexander Roberts
Publisher
Pages 840
Release 1886
Genre Christian literature, Early
ISBN

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History of Child Saving in the United States at the Twentieth National Conference of Charities and Correction in Chicago, June, 1893: Report of the Committee on the History of Child-saving Work

History of Child Saving in the United States at the Twentieth National Conference of Charities and Correction in Chicago, June, 1893: Report of the Committee on the History of Child-saving Work
Title History of Child Saving in the United States at the Twentieth National Conference of Charities and Correction in Chicago, June, 1893: Report of the Committee on the History of Child-saving Work PDF eBook
Author National Conference on Social Welfare. Committee on the History of Child-Saving Work
Publisher
Pages 410
Release 1893
Genre Child welfare
ISBN

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