Inside the ropes :: sportswriters get their game on /

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--returni...

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Weitere Verfasser: Jack, Zachary Michael, 1973-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Lincoln, NE : University of Nebraska Press, ©2008.
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xxvi, 480 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:0803219075
9780803219076
1281958417
9781281958419

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