Paper Lion

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<p>In the mid-1960s, George Plimpton talked his way into the Detroit Lions pre-season training camp and in doing so set the bar for participatory sports journalism. With his characteristic wit, Plimpton recounts his experience of a month practising and living with the team getting to know the pressures and tensions rookies confront, the hijinks, taking behind the scenes snaps and capturing a host of American football rites and rituals.</p><p>Plimpton might not have made it as a quarterback, but fifty years after its first publication,<i>Paper Lion</i>remains one of the most insightful and entertaining classics of sports literature.</p>

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George Plimpton<b></b>(1927-2003) was the bestselling author and editor of nearly thirty books, as well as the cofounder, publisher, and editor of the<i>Paris Review</i>. He wrote regularly for such magazines as<i>Sports Illustrated</i>and<i>Esquire</i>, and he appeared numerous times in films and on television.

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