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(PLIMPTON) George Plimpton ~ Paper Lion: First Edition

Author ~ George Plimpton

Title ~ Paper Lion

Edition ~ First Perennial Library Edition with a complete number line.

ISBN ~ 9780060915407 

Publisher ~ Harper Perennial

Published ~ 1987

Language ~ English

Pages ~ 362

Format ~ Paperback  

Condition ~ Good

Yellowing pages, spine uncreased but sun faded with sticker damage

Categories ~ #Biography #Memoirs #Comedy #Culture #FirstEdition #Hobbies #Journalism #NonFiction #Sport #Book #GeorgePlimpton #9780060915407

In the mid-'60s, Plimpton joined the Detroit Lions at their preseason camp as a 36-year-old rookie quarterback wannabe, and stuck with the club through an intra-squad game before the paying public a month later. The result is a literary masterpiece about professional football that not only elevated the art of participatory journalism to an art form, but also remains one of the most insightful and hilarious books ever written on the game.

The Detroit Lions agreed to permit Plimpton-wearing Number 0-to join them for four weeks of training camp, and to culminate his apprenticeship by calling a series of plays in an intra-squad game in Pontiac Stadium. No holds are barred in this memorable, on-the-field look at football and how the professionals play it. Naturally, Plimpton didn't make it as a football hero; he barely affords himself a dignified account of his performance on the field, which is just as well. What remains is an enduring classic of professional football as it looks to a first-string writer trying out as a last-string quarterback.