02005cam a2200301 4500 508160400 TxAuBib 20210806120000.0 201221s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020057521 9780593133750 0593133757 (OCoLC)1228178873 TxAuBib Sabathia, CC, (Carsten Charles.) Till the end / CC Sabathia with Chris Smith. First edition. New York : Roc Lit 101, [2021] 276 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. The memoir of the life of one of the most beloved baseball players of his generation, a raw, compelling story of baseball, family, fame, addiction, loss, and a champion's resilience. Baseball had been Sabathia's life since he was a kid in Vallejo, California. A star by the time he was a preteen and a professional athlete when he was still a teenager, everything he knew about how to be a person he learned in rhythm with the baseball season. He was dealing with one of the sport's most turbulent eras: racism in a sport with diminishing black presence; the era of performance-enhancing drugs; and the increasing tension between high-value contracts and sports owners who moved players around like game pieces. But his biggest struggle was with his own body and mind: Sabathia was dealing with the steady and eventually alarming breakdown of his own body and his growing addiction in a world that encouraged and enabled it. This is a story of baseball-- and of resilience and mortality and discovering what matters. 20210806. Sabathia, CC (Carsten Charles.) Baseball players United States Biography. African American baseball players Biography. Pitchers (Baseball) United States Biography. Smith, Chris Lenox, author.