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With his Arizona town's copper mine exhausted and his high school closing, quarterback Red O'Sullivan wants nothing more than to lead the scrappy Muckers to a state championship. However, class divisions, discrimination, and family problems threaten to crush their hopes. In this novel based on a true story, Red narrates with a desperate voice that poignantly captures an American town on the cusp of historic change.