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Ringside : a treasury of boxing reportage

Title
Ringside : a treasury of boxing reportage / Budd Schulberg ; with an introduction by Hugh McIlvanney.
Author
Schulberg, Budd.
Publication
Chicago, IL : I. R. Dee, 2006.

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Description
xvii, 364 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subjects
Note
  • Includes index.
Contents
1. Tom Crib vs. Tom Molineaux : the first international championship fight -- 2. Charles Freeman : the Primo Carnera of the nineteenth century vs. the Tipton Slasher -- 3. When boxing was a Jewish sport -- 4. Good night, sweet princes -- 5. Confessions of an ex-fight manager -- 6. Joe Louis and social history -- 7. Archie Moore : all-time senior citizen champ -- 8. Muhammad Ali -- 9. Arturo Gatti : the manly art of no defense -- 10. Oscar De La Hoya : the two hundred-million-dollar man -- 11. Lennox Lewis : the reluctant dragon -- 12. Roy Jones, Jr. : the Pensacola pinwheel -- 13. Evander Holyfield : from the real deal to the sad deal -- 14. Mike Tyson : from wonderboy to has-been -- 15. The little prince : good hit, no field -- 16. The night of the undisputed -- 17. The "heavyweight championship of the world" - or, four for the price of one -- 18. Ricky Hatton and Kostya Tszyu : the British are coming! -- 19. Requiem for a middleweight -- 20. Felix Trinidad -- 21. No. 1 pound-for-pound : pretty boy Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -- 22. Weightgate, and on to World War III : Diego Corrales vs. Jose Luis Castillo II -- 23. Boxing movies 101 -- 24. Fighters and writers : at the boxing hall of fame -- 25. Machiavelli on Eighth Avenue.
ISBN
1566637074 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2006011639
  • 9781566637077
OCLC
  • OCM67349265
  • SCSB-5290384
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries