Paper Lion

Confessions of a last-string quarterback

by George Plimpton

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Pub Date Aug 04 2016 | Archive Date Aug 04 2016

Penguin Random House UK, Vintage Publishing | Yellow Jersey

Nonfiction (Adult) | Sports

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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.

Plimpton might not have made it as a quarterback, but fifty years after its first publication, Paper Lion remains one of the most insightful and entertaining classics of sports literature.

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...

A Note From the Publisher

Alongside Paper Lion, Yellow Jersey press is also publishing 5 other Plimpton titles, all previously unavailable in the UK. British readers now have the chance to read the work of the writer who turned sports journalism into an art form on:

American Football (Paper Lion, Mad Ducks and Bears);

Boxing (Shadow Box);

Golf (The Bogey Man);

Baseball (Out of My League);
Ice Hockey (Open Net)

Alongside Paper Lion, Yellow Jersey press is also publishing 5 other Plimpton titles, all previously unavailable in the UK. British readers now have the chance to read the work of the writer who...

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A Note From the Publisher

Alongside Paper Lion, Yellow Jersey press is also publishing 5 other Plimpton titles, all previously unavailable in the UK. British readers now have the chance to read the work of the writer who turned sports journalism into an art form on:

American Football (Paper Lion, Mad Ducks and Bears);

Boxing (Shadow Box);

Golf (The Bogey Man);

Baseball (Out of My League);
Ice Hockey (Open Net)

Advance Praise

‘With his gentle, ironic tone, and unwillingness to take himself too seriously, along with Roger Angell, John Updike and Norman Mailer he made writing about sports something that mattered’ Guardian

‘If Manhattan can be said to have a man of letters, few would argue with bestowing that title on George Plimpton’ New York Observer

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