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Blue_Tires

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Reply to HuckleB (Original post)

Fri Apr 29, 2016, 03:09 PM

Apr 2016

I've been wondering why his works have fallen by the wayside in the modern era... Plimpton was light-years ahead of his time, and you'd have thought a generation raised on "reality" television would be all over this...

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How George Plimpton�s Sports Books Presaged the First-Person Media Age [View all] HuckleB Apr 2016 OP

Groundbreaking works by a great writer. TeamPooka Apr 2016 #1

Indeed! -eom- HuckleB Apr 2016 #2

I remember being a kid and forgetting Alan Alda louis-t Apr 2016 #3

k+r Blue_Tires Apr 2016 #4