Playing to Win

By Michael Lewis,

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Book description

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…

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1 author picked Playing to Win as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

We found Michael Lewis’s new audiobook (Audible Originals, 2020) a hilarious first-person account of the insanity that youth sports has become, in this case focusing on pay-to-play softball. Lewis even describes how he cut short time with President Obama to rush back to one of his daughter’s softball tournaments to demonstrate how youth sports colonized his family’s life. 

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