In the mid-'60s, Plimpton joined the Detroit Lions at their preseason camp as a 36-year-old rookie quarterback wannabe, and stuck with the club through an intra-squad game before the paying public a month later. The result is a literary masterpiece about professional football that not only elevated the art of participatory journalism to an art form, but also remains one of the most insightful and hilarious books ever written on the game. The Detroit Lions agreed to permit Plimpton-wearing Number 0-to join them for four weeks of training camp, and to culminate his apprenticeship by calling a series of plays in an intra-squad game in Pontiac Stadium. No holds are barred in this memorable, on-the-field look at football and how the professionals play it. Naturally, Plimpton didn't make it as a football hero; he barely affords himself a dignified account of his performance on the field, which is just as well. What remains is an enduring classic of professional football as it looks to a first-string writer trying out as a last-string quarterback.

Paper Lion

Sports & Outdoors

PLIMPTON, GEORGE

Miscellaneous

Harper&Row

The Bogey Man

"Plimpton will interest even the man who can't tell a pitching wedge from a putter.... This is really a book about a kind of madness with rules, and anyone can appreciate the appeal of that." -Newsweek THE BOGEY MAN remains arguably the funniest book on golf ever written. George Plimpton here joins the pro golf circuit for a month of self-imposed torture in the name of bringing professional sport to the sphere of the average man. Arnold Palmer, Dow Finsterwald, Wlater Hagan, and others populate this intriguing, classic, candid view from the first tee.

Biographies

Harper

George Plimpton's detailed and intimate account of Hank Aaron's pursuit of major league baseball's all time home run record.

One for the record: The inside story of Hank Aaron's chase for the home-run record

Harpercollins

An amateur golfer tells of his experiences playing with the professionals during a month on the Professional Golfers' Association golf circuit

A Sports Bestiary

Literature & Fiction

Roth, Arnold

History & Criticism

McGraw=Hill

The author, a sportswriter, gives a minute-by-minute account of the day when he pitched to 16 major league baseball players

Out of My League

Humor & Satire

Penguin??Books

What happens when a weekend athlete - of average skill at best - joins the professional golf circuit? George Plimpton, one of the finest participatory sports journalists, spent a month of self-imposed torture on the tour to find out. Along the way, he meets amateurs, pros, caddies, officials, fans, and hangers-on. In The Bogey Man, we find golf legends, adventurers, stroke-saving theories, superstitions, and other golfing lore, and best of all, Plimpton's thoughts and experiences - frustrating, humbling and, sometimes, thrilling - from the first tee to the last green. This intriguing classic, which remains one of the wittiest books ever written on golf, features Arnold Palmer, Dow Finsterwald, Walter Hagan, and many other golf greats and eccentrics, all doing what they do best.

Literary

The author recounts his experiences attending the Boston Bruins training camp and briefly playing in goal in a preseason game against the Philadelphia Flyers

Open Net (The Penguin Sports Library)

Biographies & Memoirs

DN Writer's Chapbook

Viking Adult

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Paper Lion

The Bogey Man

One for the record: The inside story of Hank Aaron's chase for the home-run record

Paper Lion

The Bogey Man

A Sports Bestiary

Out of My League

The Bogey Man

Open Net (The Penguin Sports Library)

DN Writer's Chapbook