 Click on the cover to read more about and order the book. IN EARLY JULY, my former New York Times colleagues, Ken Belson and Joe Drape, wrote a compelling and important front-page (A-1) story on how youth sports has evolved (or devolved?) into a $40 billion industry now attracting serious investment from the richest of the American rich. Here is how their story began:
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 Please click on the book cover to pre-order. The New York Times recently ran a front-page story on how youth sports in America has become a $60 billion dollar industry and followed with a survey of young athletes who almost uniformly said that pay-to-play has become pay-too-much-to-play.
It stands to reason that the pressures being applied to young athletes--and I mean young as in early grammar-school age--by for-profit business has become considerable. The issue is an underlying narrative in my forthcoming middle-grade readers novel, "The Goal of the Game," which publishes December 16. Where and why did this all begin? I don't exactly know but I do remember when it hit me that the commercialization of kids was underway. |
