Uploaded August 2013 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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"From now on, [the kids] were going to have to play really hard just to stay in the game. And that is a really hard lesson, but sports teaches it. . . . All the lessons are in losing. All the lessons," says children's author of sports fiction Fred Bowen. In this video, Bowen discusses the incredibly rich culture of sports, his purpose in writing sports stories, and getting kids interested in reading.