"At 7 a.m. on a recent Saturday, thirteen boys plunked their hockey bags down on the corner of 110th Street and Lenox Avenue, on the rocky northern border of Central Park. It was too early in the morning to talk much. The boys, the Ice Hockey in Harlem midget team—the under-eighteens—jogged in small packs to the deli across the street for egg sandwiches and bottles of juice. Then they boarded a yellow school bus bound for Philadelphia."