Participatory sportswriting
Subtitle: an anthology, 1870-1937
By: Zachary Michael Jack.
Publisher: McFarland & Co.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780786439539
Subjects: Sports journalism -- United States -- Anecdotes.; Sports -- United States -- Anecdotes.; Authors -- United States -- Anecdotes.; Sportswriters -- United States -- Anecdotes.
Genres: Anecdotes.
Description: "Long before George Plimpton donned shoulder pads for Paper Lion, sportswriters were stepping onto the field. This anthology collects 38 essays from the Gilded and Golden Age greats. Charles Dickens, Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and more prowled sporting grounds in a time when, as Grantland Rice put it, "a flame...lit up the sporting skies and covered the world.""--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-241) and index.