Books
December, 1977
George Plimpton, great pretender to almost everything, has taken an incipient double chin into the world of contemporary boxing and come out of it, if not unscathed, still a winner with Shadow Box (Putnam's).As usual, Plimpton good-naturedly describes his own ineptitude and cowardice, then dives headfirst into danger. He begins in the early Sixties, challenging light-heavyweight champion Archie Moore to three rounds. Only Plimpton could so humorously describe the terror of hearing Moore begin to...
