Something for Joey
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.
192 pages, 2 editions
English edition · First published 1983 by Random House Children's Books · ISBN 9780553271997
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2 editions
English
- Something for Joey · Random House Children's Books · 1983 · ISBN 9780553271997 This page
- Something for Joey · Random House Children's Books · 1983 · ISBN 9780881039351
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