Sports Illusion, Sports Reality: A Reporter s View of Sports, Journalism, and Society

      "If this isn't the best analysis of the professional sports business
        ever written, I'd like to see the book that beats it. . . . Should be
        read by every sports fan or -- for that matter -- social critic."
        --From a five-star review, West Coast Review of Books.
      "Explores its subject so thoroughly and demolishes so many commonly
        held assumptions that after reading it even the most knowledgeable fans
        (and some journalists) should feel like drunks who have suddenly been
        forced to sober up."
        -- Chicago Tribune
      "Required reading for anyone who calls himself a fan."
        -- Chicago Sun-Times
      "An invaluable contribution to sports literature."
        -- Howard Cosell
 

Leonard Koppett, who covered the Dodgers, Yankees, and Giants for the "New York Herald Tribune," the "New York Post," and the "New York Times," is the author of numerous baseball books including "The Man in the Dugout "and "Thinking Man's Guide to Baseball. "Known as an intellectual sportswriter and guru to hundreds of writers, Koppett received the prestigious J. G. Taylor Spink Award from the Baseball Writers of America in 1992, which placed him in the writer's wing of the Hall of Fame.