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

By Leonard Koppett

Book Overview

"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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252064151
• ISBN13: 9780252064159
• Release Date: October 1994
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"