Paper Lion
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Paper Lion
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Paper Lion is a 1966 non-fiction book by American author George Plimpton. In 1960, Plimpton, not an athlete, arranged to pitch to a lineup of professional baseball players in an All-Star exhibition, presumably to answer the question, "How would the average man off of the street fare in an attempt to compete with the stars of professional sports?" He chronicled this experience in his book, Out of My League. To write Paper Lion, Plimpton repeated the experiment in the National Football League, joi
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Book by George Plimpton
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_Lion
date created:
2004-09-10T15:48:28Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T02:59:50Z
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