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Playing to Win

De: Michael Lewis
Narrado por: 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. Deportes Inspirador De suspenso Softball Coaching

About the Creator and Performer

A best-selling and critically acclaimed author, Michael Lewis is also the narrator of his Audible Originals for Audible Studios. Lewis is renowned for disrupting industries and exposing systemic injustices by probing the lives of individual people in his previous works. Want the lowdown on the financial system? Understand the industry through the moves of one shark finessing it in Lewis’s nonfiction classic The Big Short. Yearn to learn how baseball really works? Feast your ears on Moneyball, and listen to the men who uncovered the hidden numbers game within the game. Tough issues of race and class become relatable in The Blind Side as Lewis tells the true story of a black high school student living with an evangelical family. In The Coming Storm, the first one of four Audible originals to come from Lewis, he focuses his unique brand of nuanced reportage on the implications of state-of-the-art weather data.

Interview: Michael Lewis’s ‘Playing to Win’ Is a Game-Changing Look at Youth Sports

Playing to Win
'...the machine is aimed at prizes, and the prizes are places in colleges and college scholarships...'
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  • Playing to Win
  • '...the machine is aimed at prizes, and the prizes are places in colleges and college scholarships...'
Insightful Analysis • Personal Storytelling • Eye-opening Revelations • Thought-provoking Content • Compelling Examination

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Fascinating for everyone with children wondering why am I spending a small fortune and why am I so emotionally invested. I was able to listen to it in one sitting. Very interesting and informative.

Great Listen

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I've actually watched a couple of families struggle through this. one in the 90s and one in the 2010s. Now I finally understand what they were trying to do. Lewis is so good at explaining this kind of stuff. I ended up a little sad for even parents who had "won".

Addresses the Inequities of Youth Sports

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Very well written story about the industrial youth sports complex. A great read for parents and coaches of student athletes.

Informative

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If you do, you owe it to him/ her to hear this wonderful short book.

You have a child/athlete?

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Loved it. Appreciate the narrator. Good synopsis of how crazy we as parents have become

Short and sweet

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