Play Their Hearts Out
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist George Dohrmann's remarkable debut offers an up-close and unforgettable narrative that reveals the gritty reality hiding behind the romanticized hoop dreams of America's basketball prodigies.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Random House LLC
- Year
- 2010
- ISBN-13
- 9780345508607
- Genre
- Nonfiction
- Topics
- Youth basketballSports industry exploitationAmerican youth sports culture
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