Play Their Hearts Out: A Coach, His Star Recruit, and the Youth Basketball Machine
A Coach, His Star Recruit, and the Youth Basketball Machine
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- Paperback
435 pages
- Release Date
15 February 2012
Summary
Winner of the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sportswriting Winner of the Award for Excellence in the Coverage of Youth Sports
Eight years of unfettered access and a keen sense of a story’s deepest truths allow Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist George Dohrmann to take readers inside the machine that produces America’s basketball stars. Play Their Hearts Out reveals a cutthroat world where boys as young as eight or nine are subjected to a dizzying torrent of scrutiny and exploitat…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780345508614 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0345508610 |
| Author: | George Dohrmann |
| Publisher: | Ballantine Books |
| Imprint: | Random House Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 435 |
| Release Date: | 15 February 2012 |
| Weight: | 386g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 132mm x 203mm |
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Critics Review
“An often heartbreaking, always riveting exploration of the seamy underbelly of big-time youth basketball–and one of the finest books about sports I’ve ever read.”
“Often heartbreaking, always riveting.”–The New York Times Book Review
“Tremendous.”–The Plain Dealer
“Indispensable.”–The Wall Street Journal
“A tour de force of reporting, filled with deft storytelling and vivid character studies.”–The Washington Post
“One of the finest sports books of all time.”–Harper’s Magazine
“Amazing stuff … The Friday Night Lights of youth basketball.”–Leigh Montville, author of The Big Bam
“A landmark achievement in basketball journalism.”–Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
About The Author
George Dohrmann
George Dohrmann is a senior writer at Sports Illustrated and the magazine’s investigative reporter. In 2000, while working at the St. Paul Pioneer Press, he won a Pulitzer Prize for a series of stories that uncovered a college basketball team’s academic fraud. Dohrmann lives in San Francisco with his family. This is his first book.
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