Participatory Sportswriting: An Anthology, 1870-1937
Nov 2014 · McFarland
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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."
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 St...
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A former newspaper section editor, Zachary Michael Jack has published or contracted op-eds and commentaries in many of America’s best circulated magazines and newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, and Washington Post, among others. He is the leader of the popular “Citizen’s Art” writers’ workshops nationwide, and a long-time professor of English, teaching courses in writing for social change and public writing at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois.
A former newspaper section editor, Zachary Michael Jack has published or contracted op-eds and commentaries in many of America’s best circulated magazines and newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, and Washington Post, amon...
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