Full name: The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game

Author: Michael Lewis Year: 2006 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Sports, Non Fiction, Award winners, Biographies, Business Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780393330472 0393330478

When we first meet Michael Oher, he 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. Similar books: Moneyball by Michael Lewis The Education of a Coach by David Halberstam A Few Seconds of Panic by Stefan Fatsis The Dark Side of the Game by Tim Green Instant Replay by Jerry Kramer Sweetness by Jeff Pearlman Paper Lion by George Plimpton Collision Low Crossers by Nicholas Dawidoff War Room by Michael Holley The Best Game Ever by Mark Bowden Slow Getting Up by Nate Jackson Johnny U by Tom Callahan Monsters by Rich Cohen I Beat the Odds by Michael Oher Provided You Don't Kiss Me by Duncan Hamilton Take Your Eye Off the Ball by Pat Kirwan Panic by Michael Lewis Flash Boys by Michael Lewis Open by Andre Agassi Boomerang by Michael Lewis