"Jim Dent, author of the "New York Times" bestselling "The Junction
Boys, " returns with his most powerful story of human courage and
determination."""
More than a century ago, a school was constructed in Fort Worth,
Texas, for the purpose of housing and educating the orphans of
Texas Freemasons. It was a humble project that for years existed
quietly on a hillside east of town. Life at the Masonic Home was
about to change, though, with the arrival of a lean, bespectacled
coach by the name of Rusty Russell. Here was a man who could bring
rain in the midst of a drought. Here was a man who, in virtually no
time at all, brought the orphans' story into the homes of millions
of Americans.
In the 1930s and 1940s, there was nothing bigger in Texas high
school football than the Masonic Home Mighty Mites--a group of
orphans bound together by hardship and death. These youngsters, in
spite of being outweighed by at least thirty pounds per man, were
the toughest football team around. They began with nothing--not
even a football--yet in a few years were playing for the state
championship on the highest level of Texas football. This is a
winning tribute to a courageous band of underdogs from a time when
America desperately needed fresh hope and big dreams.
The Mighty Mites remain a notable moment in the long history of
American sports. Just as significant is the depth of the
inspirational message. This is a profound lesson in fighting back
and clinging to faith. The real winners in Texas high school
football were not the kids from the biggest schools, or the ones
wearing the most expensive uniforms. They were the scrawny kids
from a tiny orphanage who wore scarred helmets and faded jerseys
that did not match, kids coached by a devoted man who lived on
peanuts and drove them around in a smoke-belching old truck.
In writing a story of unforgettable characters and great football,
Jim Dent has come forward to reclaim his place as one of the top
sports authors in America today.
A remarkable and inspirational story of an orphanage and the man
who created one of the greatest football teams Texas has ever known
. . . this is their story--the original Friday Night Lights. "This
just might be the best sports book ever written. Jim Dent has
crafted a story that will go down as one of the most artistic, one
of the most unforgettable, and one of the most inspirational ever.
"Twelve Mighty Orphans" will challenge "Hoosiers" as the feel-good
sports story of our lifetime. Naturally, being from Texas, I am
biased. Hooray for the Mighty Mites.''
--Verne Lundquist, CBS Sports
"Coach Rusty Russell and the Mighty Mites will steal your heart as
they overcome every obstacle imaginable to become a respected
football team. Take an orphanage, the Depression, and mix it with
Texas high school football, and Jim Dent has authored another
winner, this one about the ultimate underdog.''
--Brent Musburger, ABC Sports/ESPN
"No state has a roll call of legendary high school football stories
like we do in Texas, and, admittedly, some of those stories have
been 'expanded' over the years when it comes to the truth. But let
Jim Dent tell you about the Mighty Mites of Masonic Home, the pride
of Fort Worth in the dark days of the Depression. Read this book.
You will think it's fiction. You will think it's a Hollywood
script. But "Twelve Mighty Orphans" is the truth, and nothing but.
It is powerful stuff. Some eighty years later, the Mighty Mites'
story remains so sacred, not even a Texan would dare tamper with
these facts. And Jim Dent tells it like it was."
-- Randy Galloway, columnist, Fort-Worth Star Telegram
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