title: For Love of the Game: A Novel
author:  Michael Shaara 
description: Serious sports novels often fall through the literary cracks simply because of the arena they play in. Michael Shaara earned his battle stripes--and a Pulitzer Prize--for <i><a href="/exec/obidos/ASIN/0679425411/${0}">The Killer Angels</a></i>, a fictional resurrection of the Battle of Gettysburg, as serious a subject as a writer can confront. Yet, it's no more profound, in the end, than the personal dilemmas protagonist Billy Chapel faces in this, Shaara's final novel, found stashed in a desk after his death and published posthumously.
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  Haim Shapira was born in Lithuania in 1962. In 1977 he
  emigrated to Israel, where he earned a PhD in mathematical
  genetics for his dissertation on Game Theory and another PhD
  for his research on the mathematical and philosophical
  approaches to infinity. He now teaches mathematics,
  psychology, philosophy and literature. He is an author of nine
  bestselling books. His stated mission as a writer is not to try to
  make his readers agree with him, but simply to encourage
  them to enjoy thinking. One of Israel’s most popular and
  sought-after speakers, he lectures on creativity and strategic
  thinking, existential philosophy and philosophy in children’s
  literature, happiness and optimism, nonsense and insanity,
  imagination and the meaning of meaning, as well as friendship
  and love. He is also an accomplished pianist and an avid
  collector of anything beautiful.
  
   
  BY THE SAME AUTHOR:
  Conversations on Game Theory
  Things That Matter
  Eight Lessons on Infinity: A Mathematical Adventure
  Gladiators, P