Joao Nossek is a Brazilian immigrant to Bound Brook, New Jersey who jogs himself into a job as trainer for the Manville Minutemen, a new minor league baseball team. His work with the team's star player-coach takes Joao simultaneously back to his impoverished youth in Favela do Pantanal and his embattled teen years at an American high school. As baseball season begins Joao finds himself with a chance to smack a homerun. Will he take it? Find out in Shoeless Joao Strikes Out.
11 parts