Excerpts

The following quotes are excerpted from letters written by professionals who supported the submission of this book for nomination.

 

Jack Ridl, Professor Emeritus of English and acclaimed sports poet, Hope College, Michigan.  “The Encyclopedia of Sports Parenting is a profoundly important work that leads those most intimately involved in the life of an athlete back to the values that should be and can be at the heart of one’s participation in any sport.”

 

Susan Summons, Associate Professor and Head Women’s Basketball Coach at Miami Dade (FL) College & International Motivational Speaker.  “The Encyclopedia of Sports Parenting is the most important book ever written in the field of sports education.”

 

Barry Lewis, Ph.D., psychologist.  “There is a tremendous need for society to address the challenges and problems that sports present.  There are numerous parenting books that I can reference and recommend, however, there has never been anything that compares with The Encyclopedia of Sports Parenting.”

 

Bridie Clark, author of Because She Can and forthcoming I Think She’s Got It.  “When I think of all of the families who will benefit in the some way from The Encyclopedia of Sports Parenting, the effect of the book’s clear-minded guidance on our culture as a whole seems incalculable.”

 

Arnold Dean, Sports Director & Host WTIC (CT) Radio.  “I was overwhelmed with the logic and profound insight of The Encyclopedia of Sports Parenting.  For the first time in my career as a sports journalist, I knew that I had read a book in our field that was truly worthy of a Pulitzer Prize.  Very few books in history have the potential to affect society in a more positive way than The Encyclopedia of Sports Parenting.”

 

Paul Dworkin, MD, Professor & Chair of Department of Pediatrics, University of Connecticut School of Medicine.  “The Encyclopedia of Sports Parenting is an extraordinarily comprehensive resource.  Dan Doyle intuitively and experientially adopts a developmentally-oriented approach, serving to enhance the credibility of this important work in validating its many important recommendations and insights.  I am greatly honored to enthusiastically and emphatically endorse the nomination of The Encyclopedia of Sports Parenting for a Pulitzer Prize.”

 

Dan Lebowitz, Executive Director, Center for the Study of Sport in Society at Northeastern University.  “The book is a grand mosaic of instruction; it is a gift to humanity from a great humanitarian.”