Cleats Who Tracked Soccer Through the House?: A Cleats Collection

Soccer is the hottest trend in years, and Bill Hinds's comic strip Cleats finds endless humor in the sport's rowdy but lovable players, coaches, and parents. Cleats follows the trials and tribulations of a thoroughly contemporary team: Abby Harper, a competitive but kind 11-year-old on a select soccer team; Jack Dooley, Abby's 10-year-old neighbor, who's determined to move up from his recreational team to a select team; Armando "Mondo" Ruiz, a talented player who continues his family's tradition in the sport but prefers to remain on a rec team; Coaches "Bull" Tippit, a granite-jawed retired military man, and earnest Chester Nordling. Given soccer's soaring popularity, Who Tracked Soccer Through the House? A Cleats Collection is sure to score.

A soccer parent and coach himself, Bill Hinds also created, writes, and draws the cartoon feature Buzz Beamer for Sports Illustrated for Kids, which has been the most popular feature of the magazine since its first issue. Bill also has been the drawing half (with writer Jeff Millar) for the comic strip Tank McNamara for almost 30 years.