Play Their Hearts Out: A Coach, His Star Recruit, and the Youth Basketball Machine (Hardcover) by George Dohrmann

from boilerbum

I was a little skeptical of this book at first. I love reading sports biographies and autobiographies, but I knew from the onset that this book was about players I had not heard of ... yet. Once I got into the second or third chapter, I was really hooked. The author gives an inside look in the wo...

from klburnside

This book follows a youth basketball coach and the team of stars he puts together. The author of the book spends years with the coach, players, and parents, conducting many interviews and observing games and practices. The reporting was engaging and enlightening. I coudn't believe how angry it ma...

from SeriousGrace

Play Their Hearts Out was a roller coaster of a read. Not because it had nonstop heart pounding excitement but more because some chapters moved faster than others. Like being pulled up to the crest of the ride, some moments in the book were bogged down with unnecessary detail making it long winde...

from jsewvello

This book contains an well written even-handed account of an AAU basketball team over several years, its star player, its coach and the basketball talent hype machine. The exploitation and greed is appalling. I love watching NBA basketball, but I knew very little about the grassroots system that ...

from doxtator

I received this book as part of the Early Reviewers Program. This narrative is like watching a train wreck. It is a fascinating journey with a group of kids through their youth, starting at about age nine, all the way through middle school and to high school, and that all important time where the...