Shadow Box: An Amateur in the Ring Audiobook (Free)

George Plimpton makes his riskiest foray into participatory journalism–stepping in to the band against a champion boxer–in SHADOW BOX, now repackaged and including never-before-seen content from the Plimpton archives.

Stepping in to the band against light-heavyweight champ Archie Moore, George Plimpton pauses to wonder whichever induced him to become a participatory journalist. Bloodied but unbowed, he retains his own in the bout–and lives to inform, in this timeless book on boxing and its devotees, among them Ali, Joe Frazier, Ernest Hemingway, and Norman Mailer.

SHADOW BOX is one of Plimpton’s most engaging studies of professional sport, told through the eyes of the inquisitive and astute amateur. From the gym, the locker room, ringside, and even in the harsh glare from the band itself, Plimpton paperwork what it really is like to be a boxer, an designer of mayhem.