Mad Ducks And Bears

Author : George Plimpton
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780316326476

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Mad Ducks and Bears by George Plimpton Pdf

George Plimpton's follow-up to Paper Lion, one of his personal favorites among his classic books -- repackaged and including a foreword from Steve Almond and never-before-seen content from the Plimpton archives. In Mad Ducks and Bears, George Plimpton's engaging companion to Paper Lion, Plimpton focuses on two of the most entertaining and roguish linemen and former teammates -- Alex Karras ("Mad Ducks") and John Gordy ("Bears"), both of whom went on to achieve brilliant post-football success. A more reflective, less madcap book than Plimpton's other work, Mad Ducks and Bears is no less truthful and searching. In this fond exploration of football's values and follies, Plimpton rejoins his two teammates to discuss their careers in this brutal but captivating game. The result is an astute exploration into the fascinating lives and motivations of the players at home, in the locker room, and on the field.

Author : George Plimpton,John Gordy,Alex Karras
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Football
ISBN : 023396536X

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Mad Ducks and Bears by George Plimpton,John Gordy,Alex Karras Pdf

Author : George Plimpton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
ISBN : 031637945X

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Mad Ducks and Bears by George Plimpton Pdf

George Plimpton's follow-up to Paper Lion, one of his personal favorites among his classic books-now repackaged and including a foreword from Steve Almond and never-before-seen content from the Plimpton archives. In MAD DUCKS AND BEARS, George Plimpton's engaging companion to Paper Lion, Plimpton focuses on two of the most entertaining and roguish linemen and former teammates-Alex Karras ("Mad Ducks") and John Gordy ("Bears"), both of whom went on to achieve brilliant post-football success. A more reflective, less madcap book than Plimpton's other work, MAD DUCKS AND BEARS is no less truthful and searching. In this fond exploration of football's values and follies, Plimpton rejoins his two teammates to discuss their careers in this brutal but captivating game. The result is an astute exploration into the fascinating lives and motivations of the players at home, in the locker room, and on the field.

Author : George Plimpton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Football
ISBN : 023396536X

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Mad Ducks and Bears by George Plimpton Pdf

Author : George Plimpton
Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0871135035

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The Best of Plimpton by George Plimpton Pdf

Collects profiles, essays, articles, and short stories by the American sportswriter.

Author : David Kaiser
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476686455

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NFL 1965 by David Kaiser Pdf

In the mid-1960s, when pro football eclipsed baseball as America's leading spectator sport, the NFL had the most exciting season in its history. The Eastern Conference Cleveland Browns were the champions in 1965 yet most of the action was in the Western Conference, where the reigning Baltimore Colts contended with the formidable Green Bay Packers and Chicago Bears. All three teams played two games apiece against the Detroit Lions, a power earlier in the decade, and the Minnesota Vikings and Los Angeles Rams, who were becoming dominant in the league. In those days the NFL played a wide-open game--long touchdown passes, fumbles and interceptions kept fans on the edges of their seats through seven games each weekend. The league's deep bench included such players as Jim Brown, Johnny Unitas, Tom Matte, Bart Starr, Paul Hornung and Dave Robinson, rookies Gale Sayers and Dick Butkus, and key coaches Don Shula, Vince Lombardi and George Halas. A fantastic final weekend led to a one-game playoff for the right to face the Browns for the championship. Drawing on interviews with surviving players and executives, this book recounts the thrilling drama of the '65 season and places it in the broader context of NFL history.

Author : George Plimpton
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780316284431

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Paper Lion by George Plimpton Pdf

The book that made a legend -- and captures America's sport in detail that's never been matched, featuring a foreword by Nicholas Dawidoff and never-before-seen content from the Plimpton Archives. George Plimpton was perhaps best known for Paper Lion, the book that set the bar for participatory sports journalism. With his characteristic wit, Plimpton recounts his experiences in talking his way into training camp with the Detroit Lions, practicing with the team, and taking snaps behind center. His breezy style captures the pressures and tensions rookies confront, the hijinks that pervade when sixty high-strung guys live together in close quarters, and a host of football rites and rituals. One of the funniest and most insightful books ever written on football, Paper Lion is a classic look at the gridiron game and a book The Wall Street Journal calls "a continuous feast...The best book ever about football -- or anything!"

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 1406 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119498561

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Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Author : John Grasso
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-13
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780810878570

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Historical Dictionary of Football by John Grasso Pdf

Gridiron football or American football or just plain football is the most popular sport in the United States in the 21st century. Although attempts have been made to develop the sport outside North America, it is still predominantly a North American sport with similar games (but significant rules differences) played in the United States and Canada. The Historical Dictionary of Football covers the history of American football through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 600 cross-referenced entries on both amateur (collegiate) and professional players, coaches, teams and executives from all eras. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the sport of football.

Author : Ted Kluck
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781493017515

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Past Time by Ted Kluck Pdf

Author Ted Kluck found, online, a community of computer nerds and football enthusiasts so rooted in the past and so uninterested in the future that they have created algorithms and computer software that can accurately simulate football games, seasons, and careers using fields of data that already exist on the thousands of players who have suited up in the National Football League. All of these players are now old. Some of them are now dead. But they became the object of Ted Kluck’s fascination. The Odyssey Online Football league began in 2006, with the 1966 NFL season, and has been gradually working its way through NFL history ever since, “drafting” players, crafting game plans, calling plays, winning and losing. Theories are tested. Team owners have theories. What if NFL teams went back to power offenses like the late-80s Parcellsian Giants? Are running backs over 220 pounds more effective and less likely to get hurt? Can a running quarterback survive if he’s deployed more like a running back? And why are there whole groups of people out there this obsessed with the past? Past Time explores these questions and many others, as the author—a jaded journalist, a lifelong football player, and a burned-out coach—spends a year immersed in the late 1970s, in hopes of rekindling his love for the game. Part memoir and part Bill-Jamesian exploration into football nerdery, Past Time is an homage to football’s past, and a meditation on its present and future.

Author : Michael MacCambridge
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-26
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780307481436

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America's Game by Michael MacCambridge Pdf

It’s difficult to imagine today—when the Super Bowl has virtually become a national holiday and the National Football League is the country’s dominant sports entity—but pro football was once a ramshackle afterthought on the margins of the American sports landscape. In the span of a single generation in postwar America, the game charted an extraordinary rise in popularity, becoming a smartly managed, keenly marketed sports entertainment colossus whose action is ideally suited to television and whose sensibilities perfectly fit the modern age. America’s Game traces pro football’s grand transformation, from the World War II years, when the NFL was fighting for its very existence, to the turbulent 1980s and 1990s, when labor disputes and off-field scandals shook the game to its core, and up to the sport’s present-day preeminence. A thoroughly entertaining account of the entire universe of professional football, from locker room to boardroom, from playing field to press box, this is an essential book for any fan of America’s favorite sport.

Author : Kip Addotta
Publisher : Beacon Publishing Group
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Confessions of a Comedian by Kip Addotta Pdf

From his first interactions with "The Mob" in his early childhood, his nightmarish life with his father until he was on his own at 15 years of age, through his marriages, and how he became one of the best and most famous stand-up comedians of his time, Kip Addotta tells all. He names names and details the how-to and fine-tuning of comedy.

Author : Isaac Cheifetz
Publisher : Davies-Black Publishing
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 089106219X

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Hiring Secrets of the NFL by Isaac Cheifetz Pdf

Information on how to hire people using the same techniques the NFL uses to hire athletes.

Author : George Plimpton
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1998-11-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780385491730

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Truman Capote by George Plimpton Pdf

He was the most social of writers, and at the height of his career, he was the very nexus of the glamorous worlds of the arts, politics and society, a position best exemplified by his still legendary Black and White Ball. Truman truly knew everyone, and now the people who knew him best tell his remarkable story to bestselling author and literary lion, George Plimpton. Using the oral-biography style that made his Edie (edited with Jean Stein) a bestseller, George Plimpton has blended the voices of Capote's friends, lovers, and colleagues into a captivating and narrative. Here we see the entire span of Capote's life, from his Southern childhood, to his early days in New York; his first literary success with the publication of Other Voices, Other Rooms; his highly active love life; the groundbreaking excitement of In Cold Blood, the first "nonfiction novel"; his years as a jet-setter; and his final days of flagging inspiration, alcoholism, and isolation. All his famous friends and enemies are here: C.Z. Guest, Katharine Graham, Lauren Bacall, Gore Vidal, Norman Mailer, Joan Didion, John Huston, William F. Buckley, Jr., and dozens of others. Full of wonderful stories, startlingly intimate and altogether fascinating, this is the most entertaining account of Truman Capote's life yet, as only the incomparable George Plimpton could have done it.

Author : William H. Taft
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317403258

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Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Journalists by William H. Taft Pdf

Originally published in 1986. This book is a unique compilation of biographical sketches which covers editors, publishers, photographers, bureau chiefs, columnists, commentators, cartoonists, and artists. Alphabetical entries provide overviews of the lives and personalities of a good cross-section of important people. There is also a short essay on awards and prize winners. Everything is efficiently indexed. This is a supremely useful reference tool for those in mass media and popular culture fields.