Inside the ropes : sportswriters get their game on /
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Imprint: | Lincoln, NE : University of Nebraska Press, ©2008. |
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Description: | 1 online resource (xxvi, 480 pages) |
Language: | English |
Subject: | |
Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11189581 |
Other authors / contributors: | Jack, Zachary Michael, 1973- |
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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 |
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