Sweetness

Sweetness is a biography about Walter Payton. I heard about this book because on the cover of Sports Illustrated, there was a picture of Walter that said the hero that now one knew: Sweetness by Jeff Pearlman. Pearlman said he wanted to write about Payton because no one, besides family and close friends, knew the real Walter. Even his autobiography was 40% fiction. But I'm not so sure if he should have wrote this book. Sweetness isn't your average biography. There is no fiction to keep people from knowing the truth about Payton. Do we really need to know about his suicide attempts, or his drug use? If people view Payton as the only athlete to do those things, they'd be wrong. Many athletes have attempted suicide, including flamboyant Deion Sanders. And pretty much every proffesional athlete ever did drugs. 

  When most people think of Walter, they think of an incredible athlete with a great work ethic. But this book reveals the hero of Walter.