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In 1957, when very few Mexican-Americans were familiar with the
game of golf, and even less actually played it, a group of young
caddies which had been recruited to form the San Felipe High School
Golf Team by two men who loved the game, but who had limited access
to it, competed against all-white schools for the Texas State High
School Golf Championship. Despite having outdated and inferior
equipment, no professional lessons or instructions, four young
golfers with self-taught swings from the border city of Del Rio,
captured the State title. Th ree of them took the gold, silver and
bronze medals for best individual players. Th is book tells their
story from their introduction to the game as caddies to eventually
becoming champions.
In 1960, a time in America when it was illegal for whites to marry
nonwhites, Gloria Kilhaven, the 20 year daughter of a white farmer
in Texas, and Nico Modesto, the 20 year old son of a Mexican
American migrant farm worker family, fell in love only to incur the
wrath of a racist world bent on preventing them from realizing
their love. When Gloria witnesses a brazen act of discrimination
committed against Nico's little sister, she tries to correct it but
in her effort to confront the perpetrator, she causes Nico to be
charged with attempted murder. Now she must fight her racist father
and an unsympathetic justice system to liberate her soulmate.
In 1960, a time in America when it was illegal for whites to marry
nonwhites, Gloria Kilhaven, the 20 year daughter of a white farmer
in Texas, and Nico Modesto, the 20 year old son of a Mexican
American migrant farm worker family, fell in love only to incur the
wrath of a racist world bent on preventing them from realizing
their love. When Gloria witnesses a brazen act of discrimination
committed against Nico's little sister, she tries to correct it but
in her effort to confront the perpetrator, she causes Nico to be
charged with attempted murder. Now she must fight her racist father
and an unsympathetic justice system to liberate her soulmate.
In 1957, when very few Mexican-Americans were familiar with the
game of golf, and even less actually played it, a group of young
caddies which had been recruited to form the San Felipe High School
Golf Team by two men who loved the game, but who had limited access
to it, competed against all-white schools for the Texas State High
School Golf Championship. Despite having outdated and inferior
equipment, no professional lessons or instructions, four young
golfers with self-taught swings from the border city of Del Rio,
captured the State title. Th ree of them took the gold, silver and
bronze medals for best individual players. Th is book tells their
story from their introduction to the game as caddies to eventually
becoming champions.
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