Authors:Don Bragg, with Theresa Bragg, as told to Patricia D
Publisher: AHLP Books
Keywords: olympik, kamp
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2008-05-16
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0979953790
ISBN-13: 9780979953798

For the average pole vaulter, what could trump winning an Olympic gold medal? For 1960 gold medalist Don Bragg the answer was easy: open a camp where inner-city boys could have a taste of the great outdoors and play some vital scholastic catch-up. For ten years, Don and his wife Theresa treated hundreds of kids to such a program, ably abetted by a cast of characters that ranged from a talented and terrifying chef, through a score of pranksters turned den mothers, all the way up to The Greatest himself, Muhammad Ali. With the grandeur of the New Jersey Pinelands as a backdrop, the kids who cal