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Soccerhead
By Jim Haner
North Point Press, 276 pages, $24
Eyes may be on the World Cup, but there’s plenty of action on American fields, with more than 18 million registered soccer players–half of them younger than 12. Jim Haner, a reporter for the Baltimore Sun, a Tribune Co. newspaper, delivers a fascinating cultural history of the game brought to America by immigrants at the beginning of the 20th Century.
