QUARTERBACK WHO ALMOST WASN'T

Houston, TX: Arte Publico Pr. Very Good. 1994. First Edition. paperback. 8.8 X 5.8 X 0.8 inches. VERY GOOD CONDITION nice copy. PAPERBACK,clean, solid, bright; WHITE titles on GREEN paper covers...FOOTBALL PLAYER.. cover art..; Photo FRONTIS ILUST; 128 pages; autobiography is the story of a young football player, born in Mexico in 1918, who survived two major illnesses and grew up to become a physician. Boys, especially, will enjoy the detailed accounts of strategies and plays on the gridiron. The son of a key player in the Mexican Revolution early in this century, Prieto describes the hardships of poverty and political exile and the racism he experienced in a time when he and his family were the only Mexicans on their block. In spite of these difficulties, he earned a scholarship to the "little school back east that accepts Catholics"--Notre Dame .