TÃtulo : | The blind side : evolution of a game | Tipo de documento: | texto impreso | Autores: | Lewis, Michael, Autor | Mención de edición: | 1st ed | Editorial: | New York, NY : Norton | Fecha de publicación: | 2006 | Número de páginas: | 299 p. | Dimensiones: | 25 cm. | ISBN/ISSN/DL: | 039306123 | Nota general: | Contents: Back story -- The market for -- Football players -- Crossing the line -- The blank slate -- Death of a lineman -- Inventing Michael -- The pasta coach -- Character courses -- Birth of a star -- The egg bowl -- Freak of nurture -- And Moses stuttered. | Palabras clave: | Oher, Michael College sports--United States. | Nota de contenido: | "The young man at the center of this story will one day be among the most highly paid athletes in the National Football League. 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. 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 into a game where the quarterback must be protected at any cost. 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" -- Summary taken from Front Flap. |
The blind side : evolution of a game [texto impreso] / Lewis, Michael, Autor . - 1st ed . - New York, NY : Norton, 2006 . - 299 p. ; 25 cm. ISSN : 039306123 Contents: Back story -- The market for -- Football players -- Crossing the line -- The blank slate -- Death of a lineman -- Inventing Michael -- The pasta coach -- Character courses -- Birth of a star -- The egg bowl -- Freak of nurture -- And Moses stuttered. Palabras clave: | Oher, Michael College sports--United States. | Nota de contenido: | "The young man at the center of this story will one day be among the most highly paid athletes in the National Football League. 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. 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 into a game where the quarterback must be protected at any cost. 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" -- Summary taken from Front Flap. |
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