Play Their Hearts Out; A Coach, His Star Recruit, and the Youth Basketball Machine
by George Dohrmann
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0345508602
- ISBN 13
- 9780345508607
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 2010 Ballantine Books, New York. 2010. Hardcover. Stated First Edition/First Printing by line number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; light head and tail bumping. DJ: Fine; NOT Price clipped. White boards with white overlay on spine with bright gilt lettering on spine. 442 pp 8vo. The author offers an up-close and unforgettable look at the wildly dysfunctional, incredibly lucrative youth basketball machine that produces America's basketball stars. Centering around Demetrius Walker (age 14) and Joe Keller (AAU Coach) the author shows how coaches use the players to build their own business empire as the hope for the "next LeBron" to set them on the path to riches. A clean very presentable copy.
Synopsis
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005160
- Title
- Play Their Hearts Out; A Coach, His Star Recruit, and the Youth Basketball Machine
- Author
- George Dohrmann
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0345508602
- ISBN 13
- 9780345508607
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 2010
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Youth Basketball, basketball, collegiate basketball, professional basketball, AAU, Amateur Athletic Union, corruption in youth sports,
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About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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