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. "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. At the book s heart are the personal stories of two compelling figures: Joe Keller, an ambitious...