Baron Batch: From Professional Football Player to Passionate Artist

An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose. - Langston Hughes Football chose him until he chose art. Football was a dream realized, art a dream deferred. Baron Batch is in third grade. Kids are bustling, loud and chaotic, in the backpack-strewn cafeteria before school as empty buses drive away outside the glass doors. A teacher attempts to quiet the noise, unaware of the power and influence she wields. So she asks, "What ...