Play Their Hearts Out: A Coach, His Star Recruit, and the Youth Basketball Machine, a novel by George Dohrmann, is about the coaches and players of an elite basketball team. Dohrmann, a Pulitzer prize winner and Sports Illustrated senior writer, did extensive research for eight years prior to writing his book. He comments, "[The book] reveals a cut throat world where boys as young as eight or nine are subjected to a dizzying torrent...
Play Their Hearts Out: A Coach, His Star Recruit, and the Youth Basketball Machine, a novel by George Dohrmann, is about the coaches and players of an elite basketball team. Dohrmann, a Pulitzer prize winner and Sports Illustrated senior writer, did extensive research for eight years prior to writing his book. He comments, "[The book] reveals a cut throat world where boys as young as eight or nine are subjected to a dizzying torrent of scrutiny and exploitation" (Dohrmann).
The novel explores the manipulation that takes place during the selection of players for basketball teams, as well as the large influence that sports gear companies have on the players in their quest for product promotion. The story focuses on two main characters, Joe Keller, a determined basketball coach, and Demetrius Walker, one of Keller's star players. Throughout the book, Dohrmann also tells the stories of other basketball players, their families, and their coaches, and comments on how the corrupt system forces them to make tough decisions.
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