Something for Joey

by Richard Peck

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Together, they won college football's highest award.



This is a true, memorable, compassionate story of courage and love between two brothers. In 1973, while John Cappelletti was winning the Heisman Trophy as the outstanding college football player in America, his younger brother Joey was suffering from leukemia. But John, now a running back for the Los Angeles Rams, had a very special medicine for Joey. It was called touchdowns. And John scored them in bunches because they were "Something for Joey." The story of the Cappelletti family is a story of courage you will never forget.
  • ISBN10 0553236032
  • ISBN13 9780553236033
  • Publish Date 1 January 1978
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 18 March 2014
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Bantam Books
  • Format Paperback (US Mass Market)
  • Language English