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  • Play Their Hearts Out

    A Coach, His Star Recruit, and the Youth Basketball Machine

    by George Dohrmann ...
    “A tour de force of reporting” (The Washington Post) from a Pulitzer–prize winning journalist that examines the often-corrupt machine producing America’s basketball stars“Indispensable.”—The Wall Street Journal“Often heart-breaking, always riveting.”—The New York Times Book Review“Tremendous.”—The Plain DealerWinner of the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary... ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Superfans

    Into the Heart of Obsessive Sports Fandom

    by George Dohrmann ...
    A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist pulls back the curtain on the extraordinary inner lives of America’s most obsessive sports fans.There are fans, and then there are fanatics. In this wondrously immersive look at American sports fandom, George Dohrmann travels the country to find out what distinguishes an ordinary, everyday enthusiast from that special breed of supporter known as the superfan. In ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Hand-Me-Down Dream (Essay)

    Father, Son, and the Burden of Basketball

    by George Dohrmann ...
    In this eBook exclusive essay, Pulitzer Prize–winning sports journalist George Dohrmann follows a father and son separated by prison bars—but bonded by their pursuit of basketball glory.The dream of playing big-time basketball never came true for Bruce Nelson, so he passed it on to his son Roberto. His every waking moment as a father was devoted to securing Roberto a Division I scholarship. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Switching Fields

    Inside the Fight to Remake Men's Soccer in the United States

    by George Dohrmann ...
    **A Pulitzer Prize–winning sports journalist unravels why the United States has failed to produce elite men’s soccer players for so long—and shows why a golden era just might be coming.“George Dohrmann is one of our most perceptive chroniclers of youth sports in the United States, and here he brings his keen eye to the history and present of U.S. men’s soccer development.”—Grant Wahl, CBS Sports ... Read more

    Was $14.99 USD Now $11.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Audiobook

    Switching Fields

    Inside the Fight to Remake Men's Soccer in the United States

    by George Dohrmann ...
    Narrated by Brian Telestai ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 33 min

    **A Pulitzer Prize–winning sports journalist unravels why the United States has failed to produce elite men’s soccer players for so long—and shows why a golden era just might be coming.“George Dohrmann is one of our most perceptive chroniclers of youth sports in the United States, and here he brings his keen eye to the history and present of U.S. men’s soccer development.”—Grant Wahl, CBS Sports ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Superfans

    Into the Heart of Obsessive Sports Fandom

    by George Dohrmann ...
    Narrated by Chris Andrew Ciulla ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 39 min

    A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist pulls back the curtain on the extraordinary inner lives of America’s most obsessive sports fans.There are fans, and then there are fanatics. In this wondrously immersive look at American sports fandom, George Dohrmann travels the country to find out what distinguishes an ordinary, everyday enthusiast from that special breed of supporter known as the superfan. In ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Play Their Hearts Out

    A Coach, His Star Recruit, and the Youth Basketball Machine

    by George Dohrmann ...
    Narrated by Emily Rose Speer ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 8 min

    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. Drawing on eight years of reporting and telling the very specific tale of one talented young recruit, his coach, and his teammates, Dohrmann immerses listeners in the world of grassroots ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Don't Put Me In, Coach

    My Incredible NCAA Journey from the End of the Bench to the End of the Bench

    by Mark Titus ...
    Narrated by Tyler Seiple ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 23 min

    An irreverent, hilarious insider's look at big-time NCAA basketball, through the eyes of the nation's most famous benchwarmer and author of the popular blog ClubTrillion.com (3.6m visits!). Mark Titus holds the Ohio State record for career wins, and made it to the 2007 national championship game. You would think Titus would be all over the highlight reels. You'd be wrong.In 2006, Mark Titus ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Basketball Junkie

    A Memoir

    by Chris Herren, Bill Reynolds ...
    Narrated by Peter Berkrot ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 34 min

    At basketball-crazy Durfee High School in Fall River, Massachusetts,junior guard Chris Herren carried his family's and the city's dreams onhis skinny frame. His grandfather, father, and older brother had createdtheir own sports legends in a declining city; he was the last, besthope for a career beyond the shuttered mills and factories. Herren washeavily recruited by major universities, chosen as a ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Don't Put Me In, Coach

    My Incredible NCAA Journey from the End of the Bench to the End of the Bench

    by Mark Titus ...
    An irreverent, hilarious insider's look at big-time NCAA basketball, through the eyes of the nation's most famous benchwarmer and author of the popular blog ClubTrillion.com (3.6m visits!). Mark Titus holds the Ohio State record for career wins, and made it to the 2007 national championship game. You would think Titus would be all over the highlight reels. You'd be wrong.In 2006, Mark Titus ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Miracle of St. Anthony

    A Season with Coach Bob Hurley and Basketball's Most Improbable Dynasty

    by Adrian Wojnarowski ...
    A New York Times bestseller • “The Friday Night Lights of hoops.”—Raleigh News and ObserverIn a city mired in endless decay and urban blight, hope comes in a most unassuming form: a tiny brick schoolhouse run by two Felician nuns where a singular basketball genius takes teenagers from the mean streets of Jersey City and turns them into champions on the hardcourt.Coach Bob Hurley had been working ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Journeyman

    The Many Triumphs (and Even More Defeats) Of A Guy Who's Seen

    by Sean Pronger ...
    Every young hockey player dreams of one day playing in the NHL, of skating on a line with his hero and drinking champagne in the dressing room after winning the Stanley Cup. But kids should watch what they wish for. They may make it to the pros, like Sean Pronger, only to end up playing for sixteen teams over eleven seasons. They may end up on a team with a guy like the Great One, but skate on his ... Read more

    $15.99 USD