Have you ever wondered what it takes to make a legandary sports star? Talent? Determination? Teamwork? You're right, but it takes more than that. Using everyday items like toy airplanes, Coke bottles, and pencil sharpeners, and with fun and fascinating tales of each player's life -- on and off the field -- Hanoch Piven shows us what our favorite pro-athletes of the past and present are really made of.
Hanoch Piven is the acclaimed creator of What Presidents Are Made Of. His incisive portraits have been published in the United States in such major magazines as Time, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, the New Yorker, the Atlantic Monthly, Entertainment Weekly, and the New York Times. He currently lives with his wife and children in Barcelona, Spain.