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The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game

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Stephen Hoye

11 Hours 47 Minutes

Random House (Audio)

October 2006

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In football, as in life, the value we place on people changes with the rules of the games they play.
When we first meet the young man at the center of this extraordinary and moving story, 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. And he has no serious experience playing organized football.
What changes? He takes up football, and school, after a rich, Evangelical, Republican family plucks him from the mean streets. Their love is the first great force that alters the world’s perception of the boy, whom they adopt. The second force is the evolution of professional football itself.
In THE BLIND SIDE, Lewis shows us a largely unanalyzed but inexorable trend in football working its way down from the pros to the high school game, where it collides with the life of a single young man to produce a narrative of great and surprising power.

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  • Anonymous

    Talked a lot of about football history, plays, rules etc. This book may not be for someone who doesn’t understand or care about the history of football. With the length of the book, I’d hoped to learn more about Michael and how he felt about how he was raised, more about his relationships and such.

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  • Bruce M

    Enlightening regarding what happens when people have babies which they have no ability to care for . A monumental social problem only getting worse . Michael was fortunate ..

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