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In Your Face! Sports for Love and Money

By VVAW

Sports books generally fall into the categories of amusing anecdotes, exposes of one particular team of a particular sport, or shocking tales of the ravages of drugs upon pro athletes. Good, comprehensive books on who make the money in pro sports, and corruption in sports from high school to the pros are practically non-existent, until now.

In Your Face—Sports for Love and Money by Lee Ballinger is a refreshing, no-holds-barred look into the world of sports, a tell-it-like-it-is chronicle that will choke the likes of Howard Cossell. Lee Ballinger, a Vietnam vet and Ohio steel worker, fed up with the sports situation in this country today, explodes many of the myths of sports, amateur, collegiate and professional.

In Your Face is a hard political and economic look into racism, graft, greed in U.S. sports. There are eye-opening explanations of why the people who foot the bill for sports in the U.S. can hardly afford the tickets to the games, who's really raking in the cash, and why our children will never have the opportunity we had for participation in organized sports. The book is a must for sports enthusiasts—get it!