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On Sports & Sportsmen

Elliott & Jane Barowitz

Portions of this book previously appeared in New York Times Magazine, Sunday New York Times Travel Section, Liberty, The Humanist, Approaches, Art and Artists, Once Again (New Directions, 1968), and other publications.

The attempt to define is like a game in which you cannot possibly reach the goal from the starting point but can only close in on it by picking up each time from where the last play landed.

—Harold Rosenberg, "The American Action Painters" (1952)