Volume 16, Number 2 · February 11, 1971

Jock-Sniffing

By Murray Kempton
Lombardi: Winning Is the Only Thing
edited by Jerry Kramer

World, 173 pp., $6.95

Saturday's America
by Dan Jenkins

A Sports Illustrated Book, distributed by Little, Brown, 288 pp., $5.95

Confessions of a Dirty Ballplayer
by Johnny Sample, by Fred Hamilton, by Sonny Schwartz

Dial, 352 pp., $6.95

Ball Four
by Jim Bouton

World, 350 pp., $7.95

Out of Their League
by Dave Meggyesy

A Ramparts Book, distributed by Simon & Schuster, 257 pp., $6.95

Player of the Year
by Roman Gabriel, by Bob Oates

World, 320 pp., $6.95

The City Game
by Pete Axthelm

Harpers Magazine, 210 pp., $6.50

The idea that football survives as our last undisputed expression of the Social Darwinism of Spencer and Sumner seems first to have drawn the attention of George Sauer, Jr., wide receiver of the New York Jets, while he was reading Eldridge Cleaver:



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