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...situation] is totally beyond the limits of the talent or imagination of George Plimpton, the world's consummate amateur... Consider what he has done. He has sparred three bloody rounds (his blood) with Archie Moore, then light-heavyweight champion of the world. He has pitched to major-league baseball stars in Yankee Stadium; he has shanked and hooked his way over golf links... and lost to Pancho Gonzales on the tennis court. He has fumbled handoffs as a training-camp quarterback for the Detroit Lions and missed baskets while working out as a forward for the Boston Celtics... He toured...
...Professional Amateur TIME critic Gerald Clarke, who often covered the literary side of writer George Plimpton [Milestones, Oct. 6], wrote a profile of Plimpton that included a telling list of experiments by Plimpton as he bravely followed a variety of pursuits [Sept...
DIED. GEORGE PLIMPTON, 76, man of letters; in New York City. Although he wrote and edited more than 30 books, Plimpton also found time to lead one of the more interesting lives of the 20th century. As editor of The Paris Review, he championed the works of Philip Roth and Jack Kerouac. As a participatory journalist, he pitched to Willie Mays and tried out for the Detroit Lions, an experience he described in Paper Lion, among the finest sports books ever written. Plimpton also guest-starred on The Simpsons, danced at Truman Capote's Black and White Ball and witnessed...
...school overachievement and grueling ascents to professional success, will be the only significant span of time when we aren’t bound to impress anybody. We ought not to squander it. Straight out hedonism is seldom advisable—but a lack of self-consciousness is. When George Plimpton ’48 died last week, obituaries didn’t mention his GPA, or the brilliance of his pronouncements in section. They did include a description of his disrupting a Lexington ceremony honoring Paul Revere’s ride by galloping in costumed as a British officer...
...Plimpton is survived by his wife and their two daughters, as well as two children from his first marriage...