Ron LeFlore was not much interested in sports when he attended Detroit's Eastern High School. "I was into something altogether different," he says. Several things, in factlike hard drugs, a breaking-and-entering conviction and finally, at 17, the Southern Michigan State Prison for armed robbery. Over the next 3½ years, LeFlore compiled a more impressive record belting fastballs for the prison baseball team. Says he:
"That's all there was in prison base ball, baseball, baseball. I really got involved in the game."
Detroit Manager Billy Martin heard about LeFlore's robust .569 batting average and two months ago, while visit ing the prison for...
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