Chronicles the life and career of Sidd Finch, a reclusive Harvard dropout, aspiring Buddhist monk, and 168-mph fastball pitcher who always wins and could change the game of baseball forever

The Curious Case of Sidd Finch

Literature & Fiction

George Plimpton

United States

Macmillan

This book was written from a tape recording that Plimpton did with former Packers and Colts center Bill Curry during a car ride up from Georgia to Green Bay, Wisconsin, where Curry was trying to make a comeback with the Packers. Curry played in the NFL from 1965 to 1974. It's a nice look back at that era of the NFL as Curry talks about coaches he played under and superstar players that he went up against. A good read for those interested in that period of NFL history. A rambling, dreamy book that captures the best parts of Paper Lion without Geo. Plimpton's more intrusive aesthete-in-the-woods asides. "Curious places, these football halls of fame. So little to put in them that gives a sense of the game. Dead men's voices...deflated footballs with the dates in white paint on them...old photographs...empty uniforms...ghostly places. The men just sucked out of those uniforms like vacuum cleaners had got to them."

One more July: A football dialogue with Bill Curry

Harper&Row

A Sports Bestiary

History & Criticism

McGraw=Hill

Paper Lion

PAPER LION

Sports & Outdoors

JONATHAN CAPE.

Shadow Box

Stepping into the ring against light-heavyweight champion Archie Moore, George Plimpton pauses to wonder what ever induced him to became a participatory journalist. Bloodied but unbowed, he holds his own in the bout - and brings back this timeless book on boxing and its devotees, among them Ali, Joe Frazier, Ernest Hemingway, and Norman Mailer. SHADOW BOX is one of Plimpton's most engaging studies of professional sport, through the eyes of an inquisitive and astute amateur. From the gym, the locker room, ringside, and even in the harsh glare of the ring itself, Plimpton documents what it is to be a boxer, an artist of mayhem, in the finest sports writing of his career..

SHADOW BOX

Individual Sports

Yellow Jersey Press

OPEN NET

In this fond exploration of the values and follies of American football, George Plimpton rejoins two of his Lions teammates from Paper Lion to talk about their careers in this sometimes brutal but always captivating game. As Paper Lion is the quintessential look at a football team behind the scenes, Mad Ducks and Bears is one of the most astute explorations into the fascinating lives, thoughts, and motivations of the players at home, in the locker room, and on the field.

Mad Ducks and Bears: Football Revisited

Paper Lion Confessions of a Last-String Quarterback

Little,Brown

Miscellaneous

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Writers at Work: The " Paris Review " Interviews: 7th Series

Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd.

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