{"product_id":"participatory-sportswriting-zachary-michael-jack-9780786439539","title":"Participatory Sportswriting: An Anthology, 1870-1937","description":"\u003cp\u003e Long before journalist George Plimpton donned shoulder pads for \u003ci\u003ePaper Lion\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Zachary Michael Jack\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 078643953X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780786439539\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e McFarland \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/08\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 254\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.70h x 6.10w x 0.70d","brand":"Zachary Michael Jack","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48483683762431,"sku":"9780786439539","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a304ec71-5d35-4053-b579-e67b392f1bf0.jpg?v=1778039985","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/participatory-sportswriting-zachary-michael-jack-9780786439539","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}