The Sports Bestiary
December, 1982
This is not actually a bestiary. It is what people think a bestiary is--namely, an assemblage of vividly imagined beasts that behave somewhat quirkily, bear only the vaguest application to real life and are known mostly as heraldic fixtures. True, the animals of a bestiary (the griffin, the camelopard, the unicorn and so forth) would seem to be the products of lively flights of fancy, but, in fact, a medieval bestiary was a serious scientific work. At least, it was the best that the authorities...
