TY - BOOK AU - Lewis, Michael TI - The blind side: evolution of a game SN - 9780393330472 U1 - 796.332092 PY - 2007/// CY - New York PB - W.W. Norton & Company KW - Football players KW - Oher, Michael KW - College sports KW - University of Mississippi KW - Film novelizations N2 - When we first meet him, Michael Oher is one of thirteen children by a mother addicted to crack; he does not know his real name, his father, his birthday, or how to read or write. He takes up football, and school, after a rich, white, Evangelical family plucks him from the streets. Then two great forces alter Oher: the family’s love and the evolution of professional football itself into a game where the quarterback must be protected at any cost. Our protagonist becomes the priceless package of size, speed, and agility necessary to guard the quarterback’s greatest vulnerability, his blind side ER -