Sachin Tendulkar's autobiography "Sachin Tendulkar: Playing It My Way" is amazing to read because his rise to greatness was the result of a single-minded all consuming purpose and focus on playing the game at the highest levels of achievement.This book is a particularly inspiring sports story because the challenge to be the best in the sport or for one's country is so intense.It has some great ancillary reader benefits. In India, family is everything. Through Tendulkar, this book provides an excellent portrait of classic Indian values including dedication, persistence and resilience. He is proud of his achievements but explains them modestly. Reading this book, he seems like such a great, great sports hero, setting such a great example for Indian youth or any youth in any sport anywhere in the world.If you're at all curious about cricket as compared to baseball (with the average winning score seeming so high by comparison) this a great book. There are similarities together with lots of differences. Like an American elevator is called a "lift," cricket players "bowl" rather than "pitch" the ball. And the "pitch" refers to the field rather than how the ball is thrown. If you have a really good knowledge of cricket, you'll especially appreciate how Tendulkar gives quite a few explanations of several technical aspects of the game.Tendulkar's account of his early experience in cricket and the encouragement and support of his dad and mom, his friends and his coaches, makes this a very accessible book to an American audience, especially parents whose children take up baseball.All the spoken Hindi, although there is not a lot of it, is well translated into English.There are four pages of mostly color photos of Tendulkar, his family and highlights of his career. And Tendulkar's career statistics are listed in the back of the book.It is written "Tendulkar is to Cricket what Michael Jordan is to Basketball and Muhammad Ali is to Boxing." His autobiography, "Playing It My Way" will tell you exactly how that came to be.