Play Their Hearts Out, George Dohrmann
Play Their Hearts Out, George Dohrmann
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Play Their Hearts Out
A Coach, His Star Recruit, and the Youth Basketball Machine

Author: George Dohrmann

Narrator: Emily Rose Speer

Unabridged: 15 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/05/2010

Synopsis

The NBA has returned to prominence on the backs of phenoms like LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, and Kevin Garnett. The media promotes them, the shoe companies pay them, and America applauds. But how exactly do such players reach the pros? What do they give up to get there? And what happens to those who fall short? Drawing on eight years of reporting and telling the very specific tale of one talented young recruit, his coach, and his teammates, George Dohrmann immerses listeners in the world of grassroots basketball, where men hunt for future NBA stars and young boys and their parents navigate a tumultuous course in pursuit of basketball glory.

About George Dohrmann

George
Dohrmann is a senior writer at Sports Illustrated. He is the magazine's sole investigative reporter
and has covered topics ranging from steroid use in baseball, to dog fighting,
to cheating in college sports. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 2000 as a staff
writer at the St. Paul Pioneer Press, and sports editors for the Associated Press formally honored
him for his investigative reporting, enterprise reporting, and feature writing
prior to his joining Sports Illustrated. He lives in San Francisco with his family. This
is his first book.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Donnie on July 25, 2011

All sports fans on my news feed should read this book. Every single one of you. "Play Their Hearts Out" is an eye-opening account of what the players we see on college basketball courts go through before we see them. It's not the rim nailed to a barn, or the neighborhood pick-up game in a cul-de-sac......more

Goodreads review by Barnabas on November 02, 2018

It’s not a badly written book, exactly. It’s more like an exceptionally written long form (*really* long form) investigative journalism piece. It would have been better at 12,000 words than a full book. And it’s a depressing story of opportunist coaches exploiting kids. And that sucks, though the au......more

Goodreads review by Lucy on August 14, 2011

This is a very interesting book, especially for someone who has a child/children who play sports at a high level. The book illustrates the morally questionable (and highly profitable) "grassroots" basketball system that funnels kids from grade-school age travel through college recruiting. As with al......more

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