A nuanced insider's account of everyday life in the last remaining institution of New York's golden age of boxingGleason's Gym is the last remaining institution of New York's Golden Age of boxing.
25th February 1995 The Dark Destroyer vs the G-ManNigel Benn and Gerald McClennan Two men with a reputation to defend - a reputation for brutal, unforgiving combat both in the ring and outside it.
In this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the incredible life of Muhammad Ali, the greatest boxer of all time.
"e;A well-researched and vital contribution to sports collections"e; (Booklist) and a must-read book on the rise of elite women's boxingOn April 30th, 2022, the first boxing super-fight of the era, headlined by two women and fought at Madison Square Garden, lived up to its hype and then some.
Alan Scott Haft provides the first-hand testimony of his father, Harry Haft, a holocaust victim with a singular story of endurance, desperation, and unrequited love.
For six extraordinary years around the turn of the millennium, the Yankees were baseball's unstoppable force, with players such as Paul O'Neill, Derek Jeter, and Mariano Rivera.
At over six and a half feet tall and nearly 300 pounds, heavyweight champion Primo Carnera was a giant for his times, but today "e;the Ambling Alp"e; is too often written off as an unskilled oaf and a product of the mob dealings that plagued boxing during the 1930s.
In Heavyweight, Jordana Moore Saggese examines images of Black heavyweight boxers to map the visual terrain of racist ideology in the United States, paying particular attention to the intersecting discourses of Blackness, masculinity, and sport.
THE PHENOMENAL MEMOIR OF A NATIONAL TREASUREAfter Kellie Harrington won gold at the Tokyo Olympics, the Irish public recognized her as not merely a sporting hero, but a deeply inspirational human being.
For six decades the World Colored Heavyweight Championship was a useful tool of racial oppression--the existence of the title far more important to the white public than its succession of champions.
The affectionatecharming (Kirkus Reviews) story of Tim Shanahans remarkable and little-known forty-year friendship with boxing legend Muhammad Ali, filled with stories never told as well as never-before-published personal photos.
Ingemar Johansson's right hand--dubbed "e;The Hammer of Thor"e;--was the most fearsome in boxing, and Johansson's three fights with Floyd Patterson rank among the sport's classic rivalries.
Sports fans had much to occupy themselves with during the memorable summer of '41, including New York Yankees great Joe DiMaggios record-setting consecutive games hit streak and Boston Red Sox star Ted Williams dogged pursuit of batting .
Boxing's greatest trainer reveals all"e;The book is written in a highly conversational tone, and by the end the reader will know precisely what it is like to listen to the Bill Walsh of boxing hold court on the exotic art of the cornerman.
Sports fans and boxing enthusiasts alike will love this compelling study of the resurgence of boxing in the early 1980s - and the four 'greats' who effected that change.
On June 28, 1868, a group of men gathered alongside a road 35 miles north of Albuquerque to witness a 165-round, 6-hour bare-knuckle brawl between well-known Colorado pugilist Barney Duffy and "e;Jack,"e; an unidentified fighter who died of his injuries.
