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George Plimpton, a sports writer in a league of his own
It was a great story and a major scoop. But how was it that George fucking Plimpton – gadfly WASP and literary flâneur – had found it first? Baseball’s grizzled hacks were angry – with themselves for being beaten to the story by the co-founder of The Paris …