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George Plimpton, Paper Lion (1965) Sections from this book appeared in New York Magazine, Harper's and Sports Illustrated. After recounting his turbulent experience pitching in Yankee Stadium in a post-season major league All-Star game (in Out of My League), renowned journalist and editor of The Paris Review, George Plimpton set out to answer to those American boys and men who daydreamed about being a professional football player: more specifically, a quarterback. Through pre-season training and in one pre-season game, Plimpton carried his story and provides a look for football fans into the inner workings of the Detroit Lions (the team that finally granted Plimpton opportunity to launch his project). While he set out to join the team undercover, in a group of other incoming, unknown rookies, his teammates quickly caught on, and throughout the book they join Plimpton in creating—in the author—a momentary football star. Plimpton provides telling details of dormitory life, afternoon practices, encounters with fans, hazing of rookies, and how race is experienced in the NFL: what it takes to make a football team work. He also writes thoroughly of his own experiences as an athlete and a writer along for the adventure. MORE: Amazon (synopsis and review) Publisher’s Weekly profile Author profile Thomas Wolfe’s New Journalism Picks (Paper Lion) |
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