He also wrote "the bad guys won" on the 86 mets. He's basically the TMZ of sports non-fiction literature.
He wrote that piece of shit? I read about a third of that during a flight one time and literally left the book on the plane. There's a major flaw in writing a non-fiction book when you focus entirely on secondary and tertiary sources (in Pearlman's case probably nothing but interviews done years later). Having worked on a lot of documentary films, it seems that most interviewees just want to tell storeeez, and most interviewers are too lazy to mine for anything else, and in particular will get sexually excited if the subject starts to cry.
The non-fiction sports book I've always wanted to see is a first-hand account of the '94 Oilers. Two years ago I saw John McClain at a Radiers-Texans game and actually asked him why he hasn't written it. He told me that nobody would read it except me and him. I think what he really meant is that there's no free buffet table while you write a book.
