{"product_id":"i-felt-the-cheers-the-remarkable-silent-life-of-curtis-pride-1496750519","title":"I Felt the Cheers: The Remarkable Silent Life of Curtis Pride","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the deaf baseball legend and MLB Ambassador for Inclusion, a powerful anthem of ability diversity and overcoming the odds for readers of Nyle DiMarco’s Deaf Utopia and sports memoirs such as Imperfect by Jim Abbott, Des Linden’s Choosing to Run, and Limitless by Mallory Weggemann.\n\nFOREWORD BY NATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME MEMBER CAL RIPKEN, JR.\n\nOn a September night in Montreal in 1993, Curtis Pride got his first Major League hit, prompting a long, emotional standing ovation from the crowd of 45,757 fans. Profoundly deaf since birth, Pride couldn’t hear their thunderous applause. But as the cheers grew louder and more insistent, he realized he was feeling those vibrations within his chest—an undeniable acknowledgment of an extraordinary achievement.\n\nPride went on to play in 420 more major-league games over eleven different seasons with the Montreal Expos, Detroit Tigers, Atlanta Braves, Boston Red Sox, Los Angeles Angels, and New York Yankees. He was then hired as head baseball coach at Gallaudet, the world’s leading university for deaf and hard of hearing students and was also named Major League Baseball’s Ambassador for Inclusion. Pride has received countless national and local awards for his achievements and his service in inspiring and educating others.\n\nWith candor, warmth, and humor, Pride writes from the heart in\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dafina","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42785391214676,"sku":"TBD-FBM-9781496750518","price":14.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/1479\/9188\/files\/71iWis4RYrL._SY522.jpg?v=1766517912","url":"https:\/\/wesavebooks.com\/products\/i-felt-the-cheers-the-remarkable-silent-life-of-curtis-pride-1496750519","provider":"We Save Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}