George Plimpton
George Plimpton
George Ames Plimpton was an American writer. He is known for his sports writing and for helping to found The Paris Review, as well as his patrician accent. He was known for "participatory journalism," including accounts of his active involvement in professional sporting events, acting in a Western, performing a comedy act at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, and playing with the New York Philharmonic O
"A deep, deep sadness. You know theres a theologian named Michael Novack whos quoted as saying that a community is better off losing its opera house, or its museum, or its CHURCH — heres a theologian speaking — than its ball team. Brooklyn has never been the same since the Dodgers were taken away."
