"Jeff Pearlman" (born 1972) is an American sports writer. He has written two books about baseball and was the author of the infamous John Rocker interview in Sports Illustrated. In October 2011 he released his fifth book, a biography of Walter Payton titled, "Sweetness: The Enigmatic Life of Walter Payton." It spent four weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list.

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This guy spent his early days watching his father not have to lift a thumb in the clubhouse. He gets to Arizona State, and he's treated like the Second Coming. So everywhere he's gone, it's kind of added on like bricks.

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