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Play Their Hearts Out: A Coach, His Star Recruit, and the Youth Basketball Machine
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ISBN10: 0345508610
ISBN13: 9780345508614
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: Feb 7 2012
Pages: 448
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.20 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780345508614
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: Feb 7 2012
Pages: 448
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.20 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
A tour de force of reporting (The Washington Post) from a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist that examines the often-corrupt machine producing America's basketball stars
Indispensable.--The Wall Street JournalOften heart-breaking, always riveting.--The New York Times Book Review
Tremendous.--The Plain Dealer Winner of the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sportswriting- Winner of the Award for Excellence in the Coverage of Youth Sports Using eight years of unfettered access and a keen sense of a story's deepest truths, journalist George Dohrmann reveals a cutthroat world where boys as young as eight or nine are subjected to a dizzying torrent of scrutiny and exploitation. At the book's heart are the personal stories of two compelling figures: Joe Keller, an ambitious coach with a master plan to find and promote the next LeBron, and Demetrius Walker, a fatherless latchkey kid who falls under Keller's sway and struggles to live up to unrealistic expectations. Complete with a new where-are-they-now epilogue by the author, Play Their Hearts Out is a thoroughly compelling narrative exposing the gritty reality that lies beneath so many dreams of fame and glory. One of GQ'S 50 Best Books of Literary Journalism of the 21st Century - One of the Best Books of the Year: Los Angeles Times, The Christian Science Monitor, Kirkus Reviews This edition includes an exclusive conversation between George Dohrmann and bestselling author Seth Davis.
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