Full Description
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."
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Editor's Note
Preface: "The Sporting 'I' in a New Light"
Introduction: "A Frolic of Immersion"—Participatory Sportswriting in the Gilded and Golden Age
John Burroughs on Trout Fishing (1870)
Mark Twain on Surfing (1871)
Edward Whymper on Climbing the Matterhorn (1871)
Robert Louis Stevenson on Canoeing Across Europe (1878)
Charles Dickens on Climbing Mount Vesuvius (1879)
John Lyle King on Trout Fishing (1879)
Walt Whitman on "Wrestling" and Sailing (1881)
Theodore Roosevelt on Hunting the Antelope (1885)
James Naismith on Playing and Coaching Basketball (1941; events from 1891)
Winifred Louisa Leale on Target Shooting (1894)
Kate Martelli on Hunting the Tiger (1894)
Frances Elizabeth Willard on Bicycling (1895)
Joshua Slocum on Sailing Alone Around the World (1899)
Isabel Savory on Mountaineering in Kashmir (1900)
Frederick G. Aflalo on Hunting the Alligator (1907)
Jack London on Surfing (1908)
John Muir on Glaciering (1909)
John Neihardt on Paddling the Missouri River (1910)
Edward Lydell Fox on Ice-boating (1912)
Walter Camp on Coaching Football (1912)
Joseph Knowles on Trapping a Bear (1913)
Gertrude Buffington Phillips on Salmon Fishing
Wilma Anderson-Gilman on Pistol Shooting (1914)
Lewis R. Freeman on Swimming, Sprints, Canoe Races, Shotput, Cricket, Long- and High-Jumping, and Marathoning Versus the Fijians (1914)
Kathrene Gedney Pinkerton on Women's Canoeing (1914)
Hiram Connibear on Coaching College Crew (1914)
Horace Kephart on Spelunking (1914)
Malcolm Ross on Alpining (1914)
William Hanford Edwards on Officiating Football (1916)
Bernard Darwin on Golf (1919)
May H. Hosfield on Deep-sea Fishing for Barracuda (1919)
Zane Grey on Fishing for Bonefish (1919)
Ernest Hemingway on Rainbow Trout Fishing (1920)
Bill Tilden on the Psychology of Tennis (1921)
Lawrence S. Clark on "Autobumming" (1922)
Henry Ford on Auto Racing (1922)
Lewis R. Freeman on Playing Semipro Baseball in Montana (1922)
Fred H. Harris on Ski Jumping (1922)
Ernest Hemingway on Lugeing (1922)
Ring Lardner on Sport and Play (1922)
Albert Soiland on Transpacific Yacht Racing (1924)
Gertrude Ederle on Swimming the English Channel (1926)
Bobby Jones on Golfing the Majors (1927)
Amelia Earhart on Flying the Atlantic (1928)
Helen Wills on Wimbledon Tennis (1928)
Eddie Eagan on Boxing Against Jack Dempsey (1932)
Arnold Eric Sevareid on Canoeing from Minnesota to the Hudson Bay (1935)
Paul Gallico on Golfing with Bobby Jones, Catching Herb Pennock's Curveball, Auto Racing with Cliff Bergere at Indy and More (1937)
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