Right On Laurel Street: Another Westside Story

This is a story about too much, too soon, too quick—the expectation to field a wrecking ball in Little League—a perfect steam-rolling demolition of a wee-one. At least too much for Jessica Smith, a young Westside Santa Cruz surfer girl and Santa Cruz High's class clown of '94, who didn't know life has the potential to be so brutal and devastating—maybe in movies, history textbooks and third-world ...