Winner of the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sportswriting Winner of the Award for Excellence in the Coverage of Youth Sports Eight years of unfettered access and a keen sense of a story\'s deepest truths allow Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist George Dohrmann to take readers inside the Machine that produces America\'s Basketball stars.
This is his first book..
Dohrmann lives in San Francisco with his family.
Paul Pioneer Press, he won a Pulitzer Prize for a series of stories that uncovered a college Basketball team\'s academic fraud.
In 2000, while working at the St.
About the Author: George Dohrmann is a senior writer at Sports Illustrated and the magazine\'s investigative reporter.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST SPORTS BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE LOS ANGELES TIMES - THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR - KIRKUS REVIEWS Look for the exclusive conversation between George Dohrmann and bestselling author Seth Davis in the back of the book.
Complete with a new "where-are-they-now" Epilogue by the author, this thoroughly compelling narrative exposes the gritty reality that lies beneath so many dreams of fame and glory.
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 Le Bron," and Demetrius Walker, a fatherless latchkey kid who falls under Keller\'s sway and struggles to live up to unrealistic expectations.
Play Their Hearts Out reveals a cutthroat world where boys as young as eight or nine are subjected to a dizzying torrent of scrutiny and exploitation.
Winner of the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sportswriting Winner of the Award for Excellence in the Coverage of Youth Sports Eight years of unfettered access and a keen sense of a story\'s deepest truths allow Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist George Dohrmann to take readers inside the Machine that produces America\'s Basketball stars
