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Yazan: Michael Lewis
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When New York Times best-selling author and journalist Michael Lewis got involved in his kids’ local softball league, it all seemed so wholesome and simple. Ten years later, his family looked back to find that they had spent thousands of dollars - not to mention hours - and traveled thousands of miles in the service of a single sport.

All over America, families are investing blood, sweat, tears, and retirement savings in their children’s sports careers, all with the ultimate goal of…what exactly? A college scholarship? A professional contract? Simply the taste of victory?

Through the lens of the highly competitive world of girls’ softball, Lewis reveals the youth sports industrial complex that has arisen to aggressively monetize after-school pastimes. The major players aren’t the ones on the field - they’re the ones stripping the pockets of unwitting parents to the tune of billions of dollars a year, creating an arms race of amateur athletics and enabling the Varsity Blues scandal. So what’s in it for the parents - or, for that matter, the kids themselves? This from-the-bleachers portrait of our national obsession with youth sports explores the consequences of high-stakes play for families, communities, and the kids in the game.

©2019 Michael Lewis (P)2020 Audible Originals, LLC. Softball Coaching
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I really enjoyed this, great to hear the story of his daughter and her softball career. But heartbreaking when I found out about her death just a year or two after it was written.

Excellent yet heartbreaking

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A talented writer who smoothly stitches together an investigative approach into an interesting story.

Short but well put together

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This has been a fairly interesting listen. I mean that in the most literal sense, because you don’t connect to the subject matter particularly, It comes off as a disguised complaint about his family having spent countless years and dollars on youth sports.

The problem is that the listener isn’t particularly motivated to care much about any of it. Mr Lewis even says as much - in as far as that if you don’t have a child in that sport system, you won’t be able to anchor yourself to any opinion of it.

I can’t blame him for his opinions on the youth sports industrial complex, because how it is tied to college, admissions and scholarships seems like a crooked game.

The subject probably deserves a much longer form piece of work being done on it, which I’d like to see Mr. Lewis do at some point in the future.

Michael Lewis using his talents to whinge a bit about the cost of nurturing a child’s aspirations .

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I Really liked listening to all the stats and putting sports for kids into a different perspective

Interesting

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The book starts with an interesting perspective on non competitive sports, but draws no conclusions from it. Then Simply falls back on the usual USA competition for scholarship and therefore this is all quite dull

Interesting but ultimately pointless

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