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From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. As he did so memorably for baseball in Moneyball , Lewis takes a statistical X-ray of the hidden substructure of football, outlining the invisible doings of unsung players that determine the outcome more than the showy exploits of point scorers. In his sketch of the gridiron arms race, first came the modern, meticulously choreographed passing offense, then the ferocious defensive pass rusher whose bone-crunching quarterback sacks demolished the best-laid passing game, and finally the rise of the left tackle—the offensive lineman tasked with protecting the quarterback from the pass rusher—whose presence is felt only through the game-deciding absence of said sacks. A rare creature combining 300 pounds of bulk with "the body control of a ballerina," the anonymous left tackle, Lewis notes, is now often a team's highest-paid player. Lewis fleshes this out with the colorful saga of left tackle prodigy Michael Oher. An intermittently homeless Memphis ghetto kid taken in by a rich white family and a Christian high school, Oher's preternatural size and agility soon has every college coach in the country courting him obsequiously. Combining a tour d

Who reads The Blind Side : Evolution of a Game?

Author

Lewis, Michael

Publisher

W. W. Norton and Company

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780393061239

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Fiction, Memoir, Biography

Rating

4.17 / 5 (29 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14