Hi Friends: I highly recommend this book, especially to sports enthusiast. My teen book club @ Overbrook Park Library is reading this book for the month of June. Amazon.com named this the 2010 Sport Book of the Year!
|Dohrmann, George. (2012). Play Their Heart Out: A Coach, His Star Recruit and Basketball Machine. Hardback | Ballantine Books | ISBN-13:978-0345508614 | $17.63 USD | 448 pagesThis is a great sports book that details the true story about the scandal and corruption of AAU and College basketball. The author George Dohrmann, Pulitzer Prize reporter for Sport Illustrated did a great job covering this story by revealing the cutthroat business of exploiting grade school athletes. Dohrmann follow a 10 years old AAU, boys basketball team for 8 years. He was allow total access to the team after promising their Coach Joe Keller that he would not publish his story until after all this team members, were in college. Dohrmann document the corruption that began with Demetrius Walker who was an innocent 10yrs. old that was manipulated and fed an “Hoop Dream “ of become the next Lebron James. This story other main character is the insane, money driven Coach Joe Keller who main purpose of coaching this group of elite 10 years older, was on the hope of financial gain in the future, through sneaker company and college coaches trying to get their hands on the next superstar basketball player AT ALL COST (and yes he is still coaching).
Dohrmann talks about how sorry he felt for these kids and the families
who most of the time were poor and very ill-informed and look at basketball as
their only way out of their current situation of living in poverty. Even to the
point where their parents would put them in harm way with the dream of one day
become a millionaire in the N.B.A. I guarantee you that after reading this book
you will look at AAU basketball very-very differently.
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