At 15, Willie Horton received his first contract offer to become a professional baseball player. At 16, Horton walloped a pitch into the light tower standard above the third deck at Tiger Stadium during the Public School League championship game. At 17, He was a boxing champion. At 20, he smacked his first major league home run off Robin Roberts. At 24, Horton stood, fully uniformed, on the hood of his car, in the midst of burning homes, overturned cars and ransacked businesses, and pleaded for an end to the violence of the 1967 riots. At 25, he led his hometown Detroit Tigers to its first World Series title in almost a quarter of a century. The legend of Willie Horton wasn't born in Detroit. It was raised and nurtured there, in the Jeffries Projects, within walking distance of Tiger Stadium.

The People’s Champion is the story of how a young man rose up from the streets of Motown to become one of the city's most beloved athletes. Horton was one of 23 children of Lillian and Clinton Horton, and within the pages of his book, he explains how a tough-love father and a tenderhearted mother helped prepare him for a life's journey that has included both laughter and tears.

Some of the people who are mentioned in this book are quite famous. You will find other sports figures as well as a president. Some, but not all of the figures mentioned in the book are--Hank Aaron, Mickey Mantle, Mickey Lolich, Lou Whitaker, Martin Luther King, our 38th President Hubert Humphrey, Ken Griffey Jr., Al Kaline, Mike Ilitch, Alan Trammell, Denny McLain, J.P. McCarthy, Ty Cobb, Norm Cash, M.C. Hammer and Deion Sanders.

This book, "The People's Champion", is available in limited quantities and each copy offered here on BojiBooks.com are hand-signed by the peoples champion himself, Willie Horton. Get your copy, and buy one as a gift for a friend before they run out. You won't find this book in any bookstore or library.