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In Honor of George Plimpton
by Mike Chen on 03/25/09 at 12:22 PM ET
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Saw this on Wil Wheaton’s blog today.
I was sitting in my bedroom, playing Dark Castle on my Mac while Morrissey sang songs about how nobody understood me.
There was a soft knock at the door, and then it opened.
“Do you have a minute?” My dad said.
“Hold on.” I clicked my mouse furiously, throwing rocks at divebombing birds. I miscalculated and my little adventurer guy Duncan died. It was my fault, and I knew it was my fault, but I sighed heavily and acted like he’d messed me up. I dramatically pushed my hair out of my face and turned around. My dad held something behind his back.
“I found this book that I think you’ll like. It was written by a journalist who would play professional sports and then write about them. He played baseball, football, golf, and ...” he revealed the book. The cover showed a familiar-looking guy wearing a Boston Bruins jersey. “...he also played hockey with the Boston Bruins.”
Three things I love about it: 1) It’s about hockey 2) It mentions Morrissey 3) It’s from someone who was on Star Trek: The Next Generation. Read the whole thing here.
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Plimpton was a maniac. His only intention with any of those projects was to become an embedded journalist.
I highly recommend <u>A Few Seconds of Panic</u> by Stefan Fatsis, which is vaguely in the same vein as Plimpton’s <u>Paper Lion</u>. The difference is that Fatsis (who is a very accomplished tournament Scrabble player) wanted to learn how to become an NFL placekicker. He went to camp and pre-season with the Broncos, doing everything that the other kickers did, everything that the other rookies did.
Posted by David Lee from Greensboro, NC on 03/28/09 at 10:56 PM ET