Contenders: Two Native Baseball Players, One World Series young adult Viewpoints by members of the

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"I sat down to write a book about pain and ended up writing about love

Circe Sturm (Mississippi Choctaw descendant)

and the promise of their becoming

Contenders: Two Native Baseball Players, One World Series young adult Viewpoints by members of theCharles Bender grew up on the White Earth Reservation in Northwestern Minnesota. John Meyers was raised on the Cahuilla reservation in Southern California. Despite their mutual respect for each other's talents and their shared dedication to Native representation in baseball, the media was determined to pit them against each other. However, they never gave up on their dreams of being pro baseball players and didnt let the supposed rivalry created by