Louis J. Sheehan.  When Patty Law was growing up in Chinatown after immigrating from Hong Kong, sports were not even remotely part of her family’s vocabulary. She was a natural athlete, but the only extracurricular activity she knew as a child in Manhattan was manual labor. Every day after school, and all day on weekends, she joined her mother at a sweatshop, hunched over a sewing machine hemming trousers until well past nightfall.

“My parents didn’t believe in letting us play