# Paper Lion

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- Book: [Paper Lion](https://www.bookquiver.com/george-plimpton/paper-lion) ([Paper Lion.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/george-plimpton/paper-lion.md))
- Authors: [George Plimpton](https://www.bookquiver.com/george-plimpton)
- Publisher: yellow_jersey
- ISBN: 978-02-2410-022-9
- Pages: 384
- Published: 2016-08-04
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In the mid-1960s, George Plimpton talked his way into the Detroit Lions’ pre-season training camp and in doing so set the bar for participatory sports journalism. With his characteristic wit, Plimpton recounts his experience of a month practising and living with the team – getting to know the pressures and tensions rookies confront, the hijinks, taking behind the scenes snaps and capturing a host of American football rites and rituals. Plimpton might not have made it as a quarterback, but fifty years after its first publication, Paper Lion remains one of the most insightful and entertaining classics of sports literature.