Sep 19, 2011 — Many athletes have reputations for being obnoxious, overpaid and rude. But there's another kind of sportsman, and it's the one that author Jon Reiner emulates. He calls it the "gentleman jock" and he recommends books written by three of them.
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These Three Gentleman Jocks Rock At Writing
by Jon Reiner
Sep 19, 2011 — Many athletes have reputations for being obnoxious, overpaid and rude. But there's another kind of sportsman, and it's the one that author Jon Reiner emulates. He calls it the "gentleman jock" and he recommends books written by three of them.There used to be a character type in America I like to call the "gentleman jock." Champions on the athletic field and scholars off it, they were modern-day incarnations of the classical Greek mind-and-body model. Some of them even wrote books. By themselves.
Three in particular are welcome reminders of the uplifting qualities of sports while depicting the games as reflections of their imperfect larger cultures.
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