| Participatory Sportswriting: An Anthology, 1870-1937 Contributor(s): Jack, Zachary Michael (Editor) |
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ISBN: 078643953X ISBN-13: 9780786439539 Publisher: McFarland & Company OUR PRICE: $39.55 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2008 Annotation: Long before journalist George Plimpton donned shoulder pads for Paper Lion, sports-writers were stepping onto the field, arena, track and ring. This first-of-its-kind anthology of participatory sportswriting collects 38 essays from the Gilded and Golden Age greats. Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Frances Elizabeth Willard, John Muir, Jack London, Zane Grey, Ernest Hemingway, Ring Lardner, Bill Tilden, Bobby Jones, Helen Mills, Paul Gallico, and many more prowled America's sporting grounds with pen in hand in a time when, as Grantland Rice put it, "a flame...lit up the sporting skies and covered the world." |
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| BISAC Categories: - Social Science - Language Arts & Disciplines | Journalism - Sports & Recreation |
| Dewey: 070.449 |
| LCCN: 2008044461 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.1" W x 8.7" (0.75 lbs) 254 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Long before journalist George Plimpton donned shoulder pads for Paper Lion, sportswriters were stepping onto the field, arena, track and ring. This first-of-its-kind anthology of participatory sportswriting collects 48 pieces from the Gilded and Golden Age greats. Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Frances Elizabeth Willard, John Muir, Jack London, Zane Grey, Ernest Hemingway, Ring Lardner, Bill Tilden, Bobby Jones, Helen Mills, Paul Gallico, and many more prowled America's sporting grounds with pen in hand in a time when, as Grantland Rice put it, a flame...lit up the sporting skies and covered the world. |