Shadow Box: An Amateur in the Ring
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ISBN: 1592281419 / Publisher: The Lyons Press, January 2003
Plimpton steps into the ring with a boxing champion.
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SHADOW BOX is one of George Plimpton's most engaging looks at professional sport through the eyes of an amateur. Stepping into the ring against the light-heavyweight champion Archie Moore, Plimpton pauses to wonder why he ever became a participatory journalist. Bloodied but unbowed, he holds his own in the bout - and brings back this timeless look at boxing and its devotees, among them Muhammed Ali, Joe Frazier, Ernest Hemingway, and Norman Mailer.
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