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Michael Weinreb

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State College, Pa., The United States

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http://www.michaelweinreb.com

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Nonfiction, Literature & Fiction

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August 2007

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Michael Weinreb is the author of Bigger Than the Game: Bo, Boz, the Punky QB and How the '80s Created the Modern Athlete. His previous book, The Kings of New York (paperback title: Game of Kings), won the Quill Award as the Best Sports Book of 2007, was named one of the best books of the year by Publishers Weekly, Amazon.com and The Christian Science Monitor, and was a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice. He is also the author of Girl Boy Etc., a short-story collection, and has written for a number of newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times and ESPN.com. His work has also been anthologized in the Best American Sports Writing collection. He lives in Brooklyn.

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Average rating: 3.48 · 430 ratings · 82 reviews · 7 distinct works

	The Kings of New York: A Year Among the Geeks, Oddballs, and Geniuses Who Make Up America's Top High School Chess Team 3.49 avg rating — 288 ratings — published 2007 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Bigger Than the Game: Bo, Boz, the Punky QB, and How the '80s Created the Modern Athlete 3.43 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Girl Boy Etc 2.77 avg rating — 43 ratings	My rating:
	Game of Kings: A Year Among the Geeks, Oddballs, and Genuises Who Make Up America's Top HighSchool Chess Team Game of Kings: A Year Among the Geeks, Oddballs, and Genuises Who Make Up America's Top HighSchool Chess 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2007	My rating:
	The Kings of New York: A Year Among the Geeks, Oddballs, and Geniuses Who Make Up America's Top High School Chess Team 1.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	How to Be Like Mike: Life Lessons about Basketball's Best by Pat Williams, Michael Weinreb (Goodreads Author) 4.09 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 2001 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Marketing Your Dreams: Business and Life Lessons from Bill Veeck, Baseball's Promotional Genius by Pat Williams, Michael Weinreb (Goodreads Author) 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2001	My rating:

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