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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Imprint:	Lincoln, NE : University of Nebraska Press, ©2008.
Description:	1 online resource (xxvi, 480 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Sportswriters -- Anecdotes. Sports -- Anecdotes. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism. Sports. Sportswriters. Electronic books. Electronic books -- Anecdotes. Electronic books. Electronic books -- Anecdotes. Anecdotes.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11189581

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Other authors / contributors:	Jack, Zachary Michael, 1973-
ISBN:	0803219075 9780803219076 1281958417 9781281958419 0803259972 9780803259973
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Inside the ropes. Lincoln, NE : University of Nebraska Press, ©2008

Inside the ropes : sportswriters get their game on /

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