| Description |
1 online resource (xxvi, 480 pages) |
| Contents |
Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PAUL GALLICO, FOUNTAINHEAD; WINTER; SPRING; SUMMER; Fall; SOURCE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; THE CONTRIBUTORS |
| Summary |
Most of us will never know what it's like to parachute out of a Cessna, tend goal for the Boston Bruins, burn rubber on a NASCAR track, scale Everest, or quarterback the Detroit Lions. So it's our good fortune when dauntless literary journalists actually play the sports they cover--returning with firsthand tales from "inside the ropes." Here, in the tradition popularized by George Plimpton, is participatory sportswriting at its finest and most far-out. Editor Zachary Michael Jack fields a dream team of today's best sports journalists, hotshots, and rising stars in search of the game behind the |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Sportswriters -- Anecdotes
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Sports -- Anecdotes
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism.
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Sports
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Sportswriters
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| Genre/Form |
Anecdotes
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Jack, Zachary Michael, 1973-
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| ISBN |
0803219075 |
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9780803219076 |
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1281958417 |
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9781281958419 |
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