The Harvard-educated Plimpton recounts his experiences in successfully talking his way into training camp?not as a reporter but as a player?with the Detroit Lions, practicing with the team, and actually taking snaps behind center in a preseason game. He captures the pressures and tensions rookies confront in trying to make it, the hijinks that pervade the atmosphere when sixty high-strung guys are forced to live together in close quarters, and a host of football rites and rituals Originally published in 1966 and today considered a classic, the book set the bar for participatory sports journalism.
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