The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game
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| Rating | : | 4.99 (940 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B000JGWCJW |
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| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-20 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Nor has he ever touched a football. Our protagonist turns out to be the priceless combination of size, speed, and agility necessary to guard the quarterback's greatest vulnerability: his blind side.. The second force is the evolution of professional football itself into a game where the quarterback must be protected at any cost. When we first meet him, he is one of thirteen children by a mother addicted to crack; he does not know his real name, his father, his birthday, or any of the things a child might learn in school such as, say, how to read or write. Their love is the first great force that alters the world's perception of the boy, whom they adopt. By the author of the bestselling Moneyball: in football, as in life, the value we place on people changes with the rules of the games they play. The young man at the center of this extraordinary and moving story will one day be among the most
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. As he did so memorably for baseball in Moneyball, Lewis takes a statistical X-ray of the hidden substructure of football, outlining the invisible doings of unsung players that determine the outcome more than the showy exploits of point scorers. Photos. . A rare creature combining 300 pounds of bulk with "the body control of a ballerina," the anonymous left tackle, Lewis notes, is now often a team's highest-paid player. Combining a tour de force of sports analysis with a piquant ethnography of the South's pigskin mania, Lewis probes the fascinating question of whether football is a matter of brute force or subtle intellect. In his sketch of the gridiron arms race, first came the modern, meticulously choreographed passing offense, then the ferocious defensive pass rusher whose bone-crunching quarterback sacks demolished the best-laid passing game, and finally the rise of the left tackle—the offensive lin
Another solid Michael Lewis book. team W Typical Michael Lewis - well-written and entertaining. You do not have to a be sports junkie to get a lot from this book.. Love the book cmr Love the book, you don't necessarily have to like football to like the book. I found very interesting how the book explains the evolution of football as a game.. "Highly recommended!" according to Dan Shernicoff. About 2 weeks ago my wife and I watched a great movie - The Blind side - which tells the story (somewhat fictionalized) of Michael Oher. I thought the movie was very good and very interesting and I had noted that it was based on a book. This book. So I went on Amazon and downloaded it to my Kindle. While the movie dealt on