The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game

Download or read book The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game written by Michael Lewis and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2007-09-17 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lewis has such a gift for storytelling... he writes as lucidly for sports fans as for those who read him for other reasons."--Janet Maslin, New York Times When we first meet Michael Oher is one of thirteen children by a mother addicted to crack; he does not know his real name, his father, his birthday, or how to read or write. He takes up football, and school, after a rich, white, Evangelical family plucks him from the streets. Then two great forces alter Oher: the family's love and the evolution of professional football itself into a game in which the quarterback must be protected at any cost. Our protagonist becomes the priceless package of size, speed, and agility necessary to guard the quarterback's greatest vulnerability: his blind side.