Inside the Ropes: Sportswriters Get Their Game On - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803259972 ISBN 13: 9780803259973

Publisher: Bison Books, 2008

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"These intrepid scribes who put down their pens and laptops and entered the arena may have gotten pummeled, pinned, passed, and pasted. But, man, did they capture the experience. Inside the Ropes is as rich a collection of writing--not just sportswriting, but writing as one could hope to find." --L. Jon Wertheim, senior writer for Sports Illustrated and author of Running the Table: The Legend of Kid Delicious, the Last Great American Pool Hustler

"As a former pro athlete turned head football coach, I can vouch that Inside the Ropes has the best feel for sport I've ever read, written by the best sportswriters in America." --Chuck Long, head football coach for San Diego State University and former NFL quarterback

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Most of us will never know what it's like to parachute out of a Cessna, tend goal for the Boston Bruins, burn rubber on a NASCAR track, scale Everest, or quarterback the Detroit Lions. So it's our good fortune when dauntless literary journalists actually play the sports they cover - returning with firsthand tales from 'inside the ropes'. Here, in the tradition popularized by George Plimpton, is participatory sports writing at its finest and most far-out. Editor Zachary Michael Jack fields a dream team of today's best sports journalists, hotshots, and rising stars in search of the game behind the game. More than three dozen decorated writers take the field. Heir apparents such as Tom Verducci, Jack McCallum, Melissa King, and Sam Walker join veterans Paul Gallico, George Plimpton, Davis Miller, Donald Katz, Tim Cahill, Grace Butcher, and James McManus in swinging for the journalistic fence.Together these thrill-seeking men and women capture the mojo of returning John McEnroe's serve, taking a punch from Ali, paddling Jack London's Alaskan river route, coaching the Suns' Steve Nash, umping Manny Ramirez.

Forty eye-popping accounts offer the straight scoop as never before dished - not just in the field but on it.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bison Books
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0803259972
• ISBN 13: 9780803259973
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 508
• Editor: Jack Zachary Michael