Inside the ropes sportswriters get their game on /

Most of us will never know what it's like to parachute out of a Cessna, tend goal for the Boston Bruins, burn rubber on a NASCAR track, scale Everest, or quarterback the Detroit Lions. So it's our good fortune when dauntless literary journalists actually play the sports they cover--returni...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Jack, Zachary Michael, 1973-
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Lincoln, NE : University of Nebraska Press, c2008.
Subjects:
Online Access:ebrary
View fulltext via EzAccess
MyiLibrary
LEADER 02940cam a2200529Ma 4500
001 926
003 OCoLC
005 20130711001833.0
006 m o d
007 cr zn|
008 080505s2008 nbu ob s000 0deng d
019 # # |a 309871416  |a 647823825 
020 # # |a 0803219075 (electronic bk.) 
020 # # |a 9780803219076 (electronic bk.) 
020 # # |z 0803259972 (Paper) 
020 # # |z 9780803259973 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
029 0 # |a CDX  |b 9745683 
029 1 # |a AU@  |b 000051568040 
035 # # |a (OCoLC)317254597 
040 # # |a CDX  |b eng  |c CDX  |d OCLCQ  |d N$T  |d EBLCP  |d IDEBK  |d E7B  |d OCLCQ  |d MHW  |d OCLCQ  |d MYPMP  |d OCLCQ 
049 # # |a MYTA 
050 # 4 |a GV742.4  |b .I57 2008eb 
072 # 7 |a LAN  |x 008000  |2 bisacsh 
082 0 4 |a 070.4/49796  |2 22 
245 0 0 |a Inside the ropes  |b sportswriters get their game on /  |c edited and with an introduction by Zachary Michael Jack.  |h [electronic resource] : 
260 # # |a Lincoln, NE :  |b University of Nebraska Press,  |c c2008. 
300 # # |a 1 online resource (xxvi, 480 p.) 
504 # # |a Includes bibliographical references. 
505 0 # |a Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PAUL GALLICO, FOUNTAINHEAD; WINTER; SPRING; SUMMER; Fall; SOURCE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; THE CONTRIBUTORS. 
520 # # |a Most of us will never know what it's like to parachute out of a Cessna, tend goal for the Boston Bruins, burn rubber on a NASCAR track, scale Everest, or quarterback the Detroit Lions. So it's our good fortune when dauntless literary journalists actually play the sports they cover--returning with firsthand tales from "inside the ropes." Here, in the tradition popularized by George Plimpton, is participatory sportswriting at its finest and most far-out. Editor Zachary Michael Jack fields a dream team of today's best sports journalists, hotshots, and rising stars in search of the game behind the. 
588 # # |a Description based on print version record. 
650 # 0 |a Sportswriters  |v Anecdotes. 
650 # 0 |a Sports  |v Anecdotes. 
650 # 4 |a Sportswriters. 
650 # 7 |a LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES  |x Journalism.  |2 bisacsh 
655 # 4 |a Electronic books. 
700 1 # |a Jack, Zachary Michael,  |d 1973- 
776 0 8 |d Lincoln, NE : University of Nebraska Press, c2008  |i Print version:  |t Inside the ropes.  |w (DLC) 2008020376 
856 4 0 |u https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://site.ebrary.com/id/10312851  |3 ebrary 
856 4 0 |u https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=236873  |z View fulltext via EzAccess 
856 4 0 |u https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://www.myilibrary.com?id=195841  |3 MyiLibrary 
938 # # |a Coutts Information Services  |b COUT  |n 9745683 
938 # # |a EBL - Ebook Library  |b EBLB  |n EBL452162 
938 # # |a ebrary  |b EBRY  |n ebr10312851 
938 # # |a EBSCOhost  |b EBSC  |n 236873 
999 # # |z 635090427471820035