Ralbovsky censures coaches who let their players die of heat stroke and dehydration (16-20 young footballers annually) and those who permit their teen-age pitchers to throw a curve ball and thus risk permanent elbow aches who incite riots at basketball games and those whose emphasis on physical violence may harm the youngster psychologically. 170) and onto the playing fields where the ''lords'' often wield ''dictatorial power.'' This work - a cogent indictment of what's wrong with the various levels of non-professional sports activities - is addressed not only to society's coaching mentors, but also to the parents of the nine million boys, aged 9-19, who engage in high school athletics, Little League baseball, Pop Warner football, Biddy League basketball and the like. Coaches in America have become too fanatical about winning games.'' Such views are carried over from the author's recent Destiny's Darlings (KR, p.
Coaches abuse their power and, subsequently, their young players.
