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Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Champions of the American Prize Ring written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Edgar Harding
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Total Pages : 118 pages
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Download or read book The American Athlete written by William Edgar Harding and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael T. Isenberg
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252064340
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (643 download)
Download or read book John L. Sullivan and His America written by Michael T. Isenberg and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1994-01-15 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A knockout biography of John L. Sullivan that puts the fabled boxing champ squarely in the context of his rough-and-tumble times. Drawing on a wealth of contemporary sources, including the scandalous National Police Gazette, Isenberg (History/Annapolis) recounts how Sullivan brawled his way from a working-class background in Boston's Irish ghetto to the top of the prizefighting world.
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Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (542 download)
Download or read book The Champions of the American Prize Ring written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elliott J. Gorn
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801462525
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)
Download or read book The Manly Art written by Elliott J. Gorn and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-02 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It didn't occur to me until fairly late in the work that I was writing a book about the beginnings of a national celebrity culture. By 1860, a few boxers had become heroes to working-class men, and big fights drew considerable newspaper coverage, most of it quite negative since the whole enterprise was illegal. But a generation later, toward the end of the century, the great John L. Sullivan of Boston had become the nation's first true sports celebrity, an American icon. The likes of poet Vachel Lindsay and novelist Theodore Dreiser lionized him—Dreiser called him 'a sort of prize fighting J. P. Morgan'—and Ernest Thompson Seton, founder of the Boy Scouts, noted approvingly that he never met a lad who would not rather be Sullivan than Leo Tolstoy."—from the Afterword to the Updated EditionElliott J. Gorn's The Manly Art tells the story of boxing's origins and the sport's place in American culture. When first published in 1986, the book helped shape the ways historians write about American sport and culture, expanding scholarly boundaries by exploring masculinity as an historical subject and by suggesting that social categories like gender, class, and ethnicity can be understood only in relation to each other.This updated edition of Gorn's highly influential history of the early prize rings features a new afterword, the author's meditation on the ways in which studies of sport, gender, and popular culture have changed in the quarter century since the book was first published. An up-to-date bibliography ensures that The Manly Art will remain a vital resource for a new generation.
Author : Charles Sutton
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Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The New York Tombs written by Charles Sutton and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 762 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The American Catalogue written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American national trade bibliography.
Author : Gary K. Weiand
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1462844081
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (628 download)
Download or read book The First Superstar written by Gary K. Weiand and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-01-24 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First Superstar tells how John L. Sullivan forged the link between media and sports by being such good copy that the papers of the 1880s couldn't help but report his every move. What Babe Ruth's homeruns were to baseball, Sullivan's knock-outs were to boxing, and Sullivan came first. The heavyweight title was created for him. He toured the country at the then-fabulous total of $500 per night, routinely offering a thousand dollars to anyone who could last just four rounds. His country loved gentlemen, so he always insisted on gloves, which was protection against the law. Toasted, first in America, then around the world, he called Teddy Roosevelt and Prince Albert "friend." The greatest fighting man ever, he tried to be the greatest drinker and profigate, too. After binging all day, he'd revive on his way to a fight, knock his opponent out as if he were a distraction, then head for the nearest bar. He'd slam down C-notes, buy drinks for the house, and leave the change. Between bars he'd scatter coins to the kids. Lines formed on his trains, because everyone knew he gave to anyone who asked. But it caught up to him. Sick and broke, he agreed to an illegal bareknuckle fight to be held in New Orleans in July of 1889 against Jake Kilrain. It was got up by an editor who wanted to cook the drunk to death. He promptly went on a four month bender that left him totally unfit, with less than two months to go. Only William Muldoon, a wrestling champion and the founder of the physical culture movement, could rescue him. Together they dominated America's front pages with its greatest story. The outlawed 72 round fight became legend, its popularity leading to the legalization of boxing. Muldoon became America's first fitness guru. Sullivan returned to drinking, and infamously drew the color line against Peter Jackson, who might have become the first Black champ. Then, after touring for three years, he lost to Jim Corbett. Sullivan drank away a fortune, actually going bankrupt, but in the end became a temperance lecturer.
Author : Bartley Gorman
Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 : 1468303104
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (683 download)
Download or read book Bareknuckle written by Bartley Gorman and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2011-08-30 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As bareknuckle fighting is poised to steal MMA’s spotlight, its greatest modern-day champion tells his story of rising to the top in the brutal sport. Steeped in the tradition of his Irish Traveller ancestry, Bartley Gorman also embraced its dangerous subculture: bareknuckle fighting. Though it gave birth to boxing as we know it today, the sport has remained underground—and illegal in most developed countries. But that didn’t stop Gorman from rising through the prize-fighting ranks of Great Britain and Ireland and staying undefeated for twenty years. Now, through Gorman’s thrilling memoir, readers get a front row view of the punches exchanged in back parking lots and fair grounds, the gritty characters populating the fight circles, and the hazards facing a sought after champion. “A rare glimpse into a secret world,” Bareknuckle celebrates one man’s mastery of fighting in its purest form and heralds the rebirth of one of the oldest combat sports in history (The Independent on Sunday). “Every page shines. A tremendous book.” —Traveller Magazine “Well-written and interesting.” —Boxing News
Author : Richard Kyle Fox
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Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Edward Hanlan, America's Champion Oarsman, with History and Portrait written by Richard Kyle Fox and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 134 pages
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Download or read book The Mysteries of New York written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alfred Trumble
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Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Guiteau's Crime written by Alfred Trumble and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : New York Public Library
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Total Pages : 682 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Bulletin of the New York Public Library written by New York Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes its Report, 1896-19 .
Download or read book DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Clarence Jackson North
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Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Latin American Market for Sporting and Athletic Goods written by Clarence Jackson North and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : John Keeman
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Total Pages : 314 pages
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Download or read book World Heavyweight Champions 1865-1965 written by and published by John Keeman. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of heavyweight champions from 1865 to 1965 set in the context of great inventions, social upheavals and historical events.
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Total Pages : 974 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The American Almanac, Year-book, Cyclopedia and Atlas written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 974 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
