Books
April, 1995
Ernest Hemingway referred to George Plimpton's amateur excursions into professional sports as "the dark side of the moon of Walter Mitty." Perhaps that overstates the case, but Plimpton has done what every sports fan would love to do: He has played with the pros and lived to tell about it.In The X Factor (W.W. Norton), the editor of the Paris Review reports on a different sort of sports encounter--playing horseshoes with president-elect George Bush one week before his inauguration. Alt...
