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Men with Balls: The Professional Athlete's Handbook [Hardcover]

Drew Magary
4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)

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Book Description

October 27, 2008
This will be the very last book you ever read. Because after you have read this book, you, Good Sir, will know how to be a pro athlete. And pro athletes don't need books. Or strong family bonds. Or any of that stupid crap. Not when they have ready access to millions of dollars and scores of smoking hot chicks with questionable judgment.

This book will be all you require to cast aside your boring life as some jackass who cruises around bookstores hoping to score grad-school trim. With Men with Balls, you will learn how to:



  • Showboat using classical pantomime techniques
  • Figure out whether or not a stripper actually fancies you
  • Emotionally cope from the emotional fallout of rookie year hazing games
  • Find out which free locker room amphetamines will give you a shot of energy, and which will cause you to run down terrified schoolchildren with your Escalade (NOTE: Some do both)
  • Avoid media scrutiny by directing beat writers and columnists to the nearest hot buffet

So grab your balls, bookboy. You're about to become a home-run hitting, steroid-injecting, angry-orgy-having Turbostud. They're gonna need a whole ocean just to wash your jock.

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"Men with Balls is funny, completely uninformative, and horrifyingly profane. In short: the perfect book." (Michael Schur, cofounder of FireJoeMorgan.com and Co-Executive Producer of The Office )

"Profane, beyond naughty, and, I have to say, just damn funny." (Buzz Bissinger, author of Friday Night Lights, A Prayer for the City, and Three Nights in August )

"One of the funniest books I've ever read--the product of a meticulously demented mind. Required reading for anyone who loves sports, and any athlete who knows how to read." (Will Leitch, author of God Save the Fan and founder of Deadspin )

"Men with Balls is a terrifyingly astute takedown of pro sports masquerading as brilliant satire." (Stefan Fatsis, author of A Few Seconds of Panic and Word Freak )

"I hope to one day write a book that is even comparable to Men with Balls. It is definitely a must-read." (Chris Cooley, Pro Bowl tight end, Washington Redskins )

"Drew Magary possesses a keen insight into pro sports' unyielding loads of crap. Men with Balls oozes with, well, balls." (Jeff Pearlman, author of Boys Will Be Boys and The Bad Guys Won! )

"Extremely funny. And I'm not just saying that because Drew gives me free mustache rides every Thursday." (Jay Chandrasekhar, founder of Broken Lizard and cowriter and director of Super Troopers, Club Dread, and Beerfest )

About the Author

Drew Magary is the co-founder of the website Kissing Suzy Kolber and a columnist for Deadspin.com. He's also a writer for SmithGifford, an ad agency in Falls Church, VA. Though never a pro athlete himself, he has spent over 30 years carefully observing athletes from afar, often while eating Ruffles.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Little, Brown and Company; 1 edition (October 27, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0316023078
  • ISBN-13: 978-0316023078
  • Product Dimensions: 6.3 x 0.9 x 8.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #530,705 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Customer Reviews

I'm a fan of irreverent, sarcastic, smart-assed, writing. Michael Moore  |  2 reviewers made a similar statement
I saw he described it as bathroom reading material. Matthew Chandler  |  1 reviewer made a similar statement
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50 of 62 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars There Will Be Balls October 23, 2008
Format:Hardcover
Video Review? Oh Christ, I'm so tempted to paint mouths on my balls and let them do the the whole thing. Thankfully, I don't have the technology. Or the talking balls.

This is the greatest book by a fat, gay man since the latter days of Truman Capote. In fact, if he had any literary chaps whatsoever this is the book Capote would have written.

I laughed, I cried, I masturbated furiously while wearing store-bought panties, wait....

Seriously, buy this book. Drew's a comic genius. You'll be the envy of your friends. If you had any friends. Loser.
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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars This book went balls deep. October 27, 2008
Format:Hardcover
If you are a fan of Magary's work on the blogs KSK and Deadspin, you will not be dissapointed in this book. The book basically reads like a bunch of blog posts strung together. This is a good thing. The best part of the book is that most sportsfans could have come up with it's basic premise, but only Big Daddy Balls could pull it off in such an entertaining, profane, and true fashion. I saw he described it as bathroom reading material. You would have to have eaten rotten Mexican food from a lawless border town for a week straight for this to be true. This book is hard to put down and two hour marathon bathrooms trips tend to put my legs to sleep. Buy the book and enjoy it in a comfy place. Such as your local opium den sprawled out on one of those enormous pillows.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A Good Laugh for the Sports Fan June 8, 2009
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A solid laugh from cover to cover for any sports fan. Author Drew Magary does not worry about hurting any feelings or being politically correct as a reader will soon find out. Definitely worth a read.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars hilarious!
A hilarious read! It leaves almost no stone unturned. The only topic I think Magary failed to mention was advice for an athlete who is considering coming out of the closet.
Published 15 days ago by Thomas Kroeker
3.0 out of 5 stars Decent
I really enjoy Drew Magary's stuff on KSK and Deadspin. I even find some of his Amazon reviews entertaining. However, I didn't really like this particular book. Read more
Published 21 months ago by Nick
4.0 out of 5 stars Like holding KSK in the palm of your hand...
If you don't know Drew Magary from Kissing Suzy Kolber or Deadspin, this may not be the best introduction to his often-caustic style of breaking down American sports. Read more
Published on February 7, 2011 by Brian Smith
5.0 out of 5 stars Good Stuff
Very funny...well done...if you liked this you'd like Bill Simmons, Basketball. I'm a fan of irreverent, sarcastic, smart-assed, writing.
Published on February 5, 2011 by Michael Moore
5.0 out of 5 stars Balls Up!
Men With Balls is a great primer on navigating the ball-filled world of professional athletes. It goes through everything from draft day through retirement and everything in... Read more
Published on December 4, 2009 by JoshJosh
1.0 out of 5 stars Trite.
Once past the profanity, the blustering, and the posing, the reader is left with a set of hackneyed observations any sports fan could have reached. Read more
Published on September 14, 2009 by John J. Nevins
1.0 out of 5 stars Waste of Money and Time
Men with Balls: The Professional Athlete's Handbook

This is what I call a complete waste of time and money. Hardly funny and very juvenile. Read more
Published on May 9, 2009 by Irish Rover
4.0 out of 5 stars Good vulgar fun
This book is well conceived and if you enjoy hyperbolic comedy, this is for you.
The only quibble is that if read as a novel, it can be a little repetitive (like a lot of... Read more
Published on February 5, 2009 by J. Sawers
3.0 out of 5 stars What was that
Not a bad book, entertaining at times. You will feel little to nothing when you're done, but I feel it was intended that way. If you have nothing else to do, give it a shot.
Published on December 22, 2008 by T. Gillen
5.0 out of 5 stars Crude, Rude and Wonderful
Under the guise of writing a handbook for professional athletes, Drew Magary has written a wickedly funny, and very truthful satire of professional athletes, and the fans who lives... Read more
Published on November 30, 2008 by Ozark
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