The Perfect Backgammoner

Name/Title

The Perfect Backgammoner

Description

In “The Perfect Backgammoner” Julian Jerome delivers an entertaining portrait of backgammon etiquette and satirical player “types” that was swiped and re-published under Clair Booth Brokaw’s name in the 'Vanity Fair’s Book of Backgammon.' The closing passage quoting George Mabardi on the qualities of the "perfect backgammoner" is particularly memorable.

Publication Details

Periodical

The New Yorker

Volume/Number/Issue

November 1930

Date Published

1930

Time Period

Modern Backgammon

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1930_11

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