1968

by Bob Gibson

Thirteen year olds, Robert and Norris picked a bad first day of school to get into a fight. The year was 1968 and their public school was a powder keg of racial tension—as it experiencing its first day of Integration. Suddenly, two boys, school safety patrols, one white, one black, both who would rather be fishing, find themselves thrust, by their peers, parents and school administrators into the center of an historic struggle .The choices they make, against a background of violence ,fear and hatred flamed by the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy diffuse a school riot, and take them on a journey to Washington D.C. and a journey to confronting eachother’s deep rooted prejudice.

27 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 8, 2012

About the author

BOB GIBSON is a baseball Hall of Famer who played 17 seasons for the St. Louis Cardinals. During that time he was a two-time Cy Young Award and World Series winner. He is also the author of Stranger to the Game: The Autobiography of Bob Gibson and Sixty Feet, Six Inches, which was written with Reggie Jackson and coauthor Lonnie Wheeler and Pitch by Pitch : My View of One Unforgettable Game, also written with Wheeler.