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Product details
- ISBN 9780786439539
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 08 Dec 2008
- Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Long before journalist George Plimpton donned shoulder pads for Paper Lion, sportswriters were stepping onto the field, arena, track and ring. This first-of-its-kind anthology of participatory sportswriting collects 48 pieces from the Gilded and Golden Age greats. Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Frances Elizabeth Willard, John Muir, Jack London, Zane Grey, Ernest Hemingway, Ring Lardner, Bill Tilden, Bobby Jones, Helen Mills, Paul Gallico, and many more prowled America's sporting grounds with pen in hand in a time when, as Grantland Rice put it, "a flame...lit up the sporting skies and covered the world."
Zachary Michael Jack is a professor of English at North Central College, in Naperville, Illinois where he teaches courses in writing for social change, public writing, and leadership, ethics, and values, among others. A member of the board of directors of the Midwestern History Association (MHA), he leads Writing to Change the World workshops nationwide. He is the author of many books on America’s most visionary leaders and change agents.
