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Play their hearts out a coach, his star recruit, and the youth basketball machine

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.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Dohrmann, George
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Balantine Books, c2010.
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	Basketball. Youth league basketball. Keller, Joe. Basketball coaches. Walker, Demetrius. Basketball players. Basketball players > Recruiting.
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Summary:	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.
Physical Description:	422 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
ISBN:	9780345508607 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0345508602 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Author Notes:	" George Dohrmann is a senior writer at Sports Illustrated and the magazine's investigative reporter. In 2000, while working at the St. Paul Pioneer Press , he won a Pulitzer Prize for a series of stories that uncovered a college basketball team's academic fraud. Dohrmann lives in San Francisco with his family. This is his first book."