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Author : Bert Randolph Sugar
Publisher : Holiday House
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1000 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Ring Record Book and Boxing Encyclopedia, 1981 written by Bert Randolph Sugar and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 1981 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1164 pages
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Download or read book The Ring ... Record Book and Boxing Encyclopedia written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 1164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Grasso
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810878674
Total Pages : 589 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Boxing written by John Grasso and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2013-11-14 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boxing is one of the oldest sports in the world, reaching back to the Ancient Greeks, although it has become popular only in the past century or so. But, in some ways, it is a rather complicated sport since – to avoid unnecessary harm – it has been endowed with rules to keep it clean, referees to see the rules are obeyed, and organizations to regulate the sport. Boxing was once largely amateur, although the professional bouts attracted the most attention, but now it is also an Olympic sport. And, over the years, there has been one champion after another who symbolized what boxing was all about, such Joe Louis, Mohammad Ali and Cassius Clay. Naturally, these champions are the focus of the Historical Dictionary of Boxing as well, and they have the biggest entries in the dictionary section, but they had to fight against someone and there are dozens and dozens of other boxers with smaller entries. More of these boxers come from the United States than elsewhere, but there are others from Europe, Asia and Latin America, and there are also entries on the major boxing countries as well. Plus entries on the rules, on the organizations, and on the technical terminology and jargon you have to know just to follow the bouts. The introduction provides a broad view of boxing’s history while the chronology traces events from 688 B.C. to 2012 A.D. Not all that much has been written on boxing that is not ephemeral, but much of that literature can be found in the bibliography. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the sport of boxing.
Author : Allen Bodner
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438436084
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book When Boxing Was a Jewish Sport written by Allen Bodner and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2011-02-04 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid portrayal of the important role of Jews in American boxing history, and vice versa.
Author : Jack Cavanaugh
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0307492168
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Tunney written by Jack Cavanaugh and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2009-04-02 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the legendary athletes of the 1920s, the unquestioned halcyon days of sports, stands Gene Tunney, the boxer who upset Jack Dempsey in spectacular fashion, notched a 77—1 record as a prizefighter, and later avenged his sole setback (to a fearless and highly unorthodox fighter named Harry Greb). Yet within a few years of retiring from the ring, Tunney willingly receded into the background, renouncing the image of jock celebrity that became the stock in trade of so many of his contemporaries. To this day, Gene Tunney’s name is most often recognized only in conjunction with his epic “long count” second bout with Dempsey. In Tunney, the veteran journalist and author Jack Cavanaugh gives an account of the incomparable sporting milieu of the Roaring Twenties, centered around Gene Tunney and Jack Dempsey, the gladiators whose two titanic clashes transfixed a nation. Cavanaugh traces Tunney’s life and career, taking us from the mean streets of Tunney’s native Greenwich Village to the Greenwich, Connecticut, home of his only love, the heiress Polly Lauder; from Parris Island to Yale University; from Tunney learning fisticuffs as a skinny kid at the knee of his longshoreman father to his reign atop boxing’s glamorous heavyweight division. Gene Tunney defied easy categorization, as a fighter and as a person. He was a sex symbol, a master of defensive boxing strategy, and the possessor of a powerful, and occasionally showy, intellect–qualities that prompted the great sportswriters of the golden age of sports to portray Tunney as “aloof.” This intelligence would later serve him well in the corporate world, as CEO of several major companies and as a patron of the arts. And while the public craved reports of bad blood between Tunney and Dempsey, the pair were, in reality, respectful ring adversaries who in retirement grew to share a sincere lifelong friendship–with Dempsey even stumping for Tunney’s son, John, during the younger Tunney’s successful run for Congress. Tunney offers a unique perspective on sports, celebrity, and popular culture in the 1920s. But more than an exciting and insightful real-life tale, replete with heads of state, irrepressible showmen, mobsters, Hollywood luminaries, and the cream of New York society, Tunney is an irresistible story of an American underdog who forever changed the way fans look at their heroes.
Author : Andrew M. Kaye
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820329109
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (291 download)
Download or read book The Pussycat of Prizefighting written by Andrew M. Kaye and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1926, Atlanta's Theodore “Tiger” Flowers became the first African-American boxer to win the world middleweight title. The next year, he was dead. More than an account of Flowers's remarkable achievements, the book is a penetrating analysis of the cultural and historical currents that defined the terms of Flowers's success. Through the prism of prizefighting, the author reveals the personal cost African-Americans faced as they attempted to earn black respect while escaping white hostility.
Author : Randy Roberts
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0029269008
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (292 download)
Download or read book Papa Jack written by Randy Roberts and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1985-03 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Jack Johnson defeated white heavyweight champion Jim Jeffries in 1910, it was America's notions of racial superiority that staggered under his blows. Amid riots and lynchings, the search began for the Great White Hope who could put the "uppity" new champion in his place. Here is the startling true story of the most famous--and most hated--black American of his day. "Papa Jack" takes us into a violent and sordid world. It is an astonishing tale of black defiance--and white retribution--set against the dramatic canvas of sports and spectacle in Jim Crow America.
Author : Arlene Schulman
Publisher : Lerner Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780822524489
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (244 download)
Download or read book Muhammad Ali written by Arlene Schulman and published by Lerner Publications. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the life and career of Muhammad Ali, including his childhood, his performance at the 1960 Olympics, his exile from boxing for refusing to serve in the Vietnam War, and his reigns as heavyweight champion of the world.
Author : Joseph M. Siegman
Publisher : SP Books
ISBN 13 : 9781561710287
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (12 download)
Download or read book The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame written by Joseph M. Siegman and published by SP Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the first full account of Jewish contributions to international sports. Rich in personal anecdotes, historical background (including explanation of the barriers excluding Jewish athletes from otherwise successful careers) and packed with 150 rare, historical, black-and-white photographs. Foreword by Mark Spitz.
Author : Kenneth Shropshire
Publisher : Civitas Books
ISBN 13 : 0786732458
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
Download or read book Being Sugar Ray written by Kenneth Shropshire and published by Civitas Books. This book was released on 2009-04-13 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And in this corner, hailing from Black Bottom, Detroit by way of Harlem, with more victories than Joe Louis and Muhammad Ali combined, the greatest fighter-pound for pound-of all time: Sugar Ray Robinson. If imitation is truly the sincerest form of flattery then there should be little doubt Sugar Ray Robinson is the greatest and most influential American boxer of all time. Fighters (and the occasional alt-rock band) have been adopting his name, and trying to imitate his inimitable fighting style for decades. Sugar Ray Robinson transcended race and sport to become a celebrity athlete in a way that no one-white or black-had accomplished before him. From his business empire to his prized flamingo pink Cadillac, described as the Hope Diamond of Harlem, Kenneth Shropshire shows Sugar Ray was the trailblazer whom every athlete since has been trying, consciously or otherwise, to emulate.
Author : Mark Allen Baker
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476637229
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Between the Ropes at Madison Square Garden written by Mark Allen Baker and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-07-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inside Madison Square Garden, the City Ring was the altar of pugilism from 1925 until 2007. Hosting countless championship fights, historic main events and memorable undercards, it was center stage of boxing history. The ring now rests at the International Boxing Hall of Fame in Canastota, New York--its 132 assembled pieces memorializing a key facet of 20th century American life. While many books have been written about great fistic contests that took place at Madison Square Garden, this is the first to focus on its Holy Grail.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book American Reference Books Annual written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1970- issued in 2 vols.: v. 1, General reference, social sciences, history, economics, business; v. 2, Fine arts, humanities, science and engineering.
Author : Mark Allen Baker
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614231354
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)
Download or read book Title Town USA written by Mark Allen Baker and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-13 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canastota, New York, at the epicenter of Upstate New York's rich boxing heritage, is home to the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Having produced some of boxing's most prominent pugilists, including Carmen Basilio and Billy Backus, the area has also hosted many legendary fighters, including Jack Britton, Harry Greb, Sam Langford and Tommy Ryan. Many boxing dreams have come true here through title fights and epic ring rivalries. Author Mark Allen Baker tells the story of those "thunder gods of the ring" and the fights that made them famous, finally settling the score: Canastota is "Title Town, USA."
Author : Frederick V. Romano
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786417935
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book The Boxing Filmography written by Frederick V. Romano and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2004-09-10 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The love affair between boxing and Hollywood began with the dawn of film. As early as the days of Chaplin, the "boxing film" had assumed its place as a subgenre, and over the decades it has taken the forms of biographies, dramas, romances, comedies, and even musicals and westerns. Such well known pictures as The Champ, Body and Soul, Don King: Only in America, Girl Fight, The Irish in Us, The Kid from Brooklyn, Somebody Up There Likes Me, Raging Bull, each of the Rocky movies and When We Were Kings are just a few examples of the feature films included in this filmography. Thoroughly researched, this work examines 98 boxing films from the 1920s through 2003. Each entry provides basic filmographic data (the film's studio, its genre, its length, cast and credits); a detailed synopsis of the film; illuminating commentary on the boxing sequences; and excerpts from contemporary reviews. Most entries also summarize the making of the film, with particular attention to the training of the actors for the boxing scenes. The filmography also includes information on studio publicity releases and advertisements, press books and exhibitor campaign materials for each film.
Author : David L. Porter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313387583
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)
Download or read book African-American Sports Greats written by David L. Porter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1995-10-30 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African-American athletes have played a significant role in the development and popularity of American professional sports, and have encountered numerous obstacles on the road to athletic success. This is the first comprehensive multi-sport biographical dictionary of African Americans who reached the pinnacles of success in their sport. It contains more personal and career profiles of African-American sports greats than are found in any other single source. Biographical profiles of 166 noted athletes, coaches, and administrators in team and individual sports include both Ristorical figures such as Jesse Owens and Satchel Paige and contemporary stars such as Charles Barkley, Ken Griffey, Jr., Michael Jordan, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Shaquille O'Neal, and Emmitt Smith. Forty-four sports historians contributed the colorfully written biographies, which blend both personal background information and athletic career accomplishments. All information is current through the middle of 1995. The dictionary covers the contributions made by African-American greats in football, baseball, basketball, track and field, boxing, wrestling, auto and stock car racing, golf, thoroughbred racing, tennis, cycling, and figure skating. More than two-thirds of the entries represent team sports. The dictionary is organized alphabetically by person. Each colorfully written profile is 800-1,000 words in length and traces the subject's personal life, family and educational background, personal struggles, career accomplishments, records set, statistical data, awards and honors, and overall impact; and features lively quotations by and about the sports luminaries. Each entry contains a handy bibliography of books and articles about the subject. Biographies of managers, coaches, and club executives describe their teams, statistical achievements, accomplishments, strategy, and sports impact. A general introduction traces the historic struggle of African-American athletes in professional and Olympic sports and appendices provide alphabetical listings of biographical entries and entries by sport. A selection of photos complement the profiles. For the sports fan or librarian, this is a first stop for biographical information that captures the personality of the athlete and includes all the pertinent information about his or her accomplishments. It is an essential addition to the reference sections of junior high, high school, and public libraries.
Author : Elliot Aronson
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780716759669
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Readings About The Social Animal written by Elliot Aronson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-08-22 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organized to illustrate the major themes of Elliot Aronson's The Social Animal, this collection of classic and contemporary readings explores the most important ideas, issues, and debates in social psychology today.
Author : Mark Allen Baker
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476677654
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book The World Colored Heavyweight Championship, 1876-1937 written by Mark Allen Baker and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. It took some extraordinary individuals, most notably Jack Johnson, to challenge "the color line" in the ring, although the title and the black fighters who contended for it continued until the reign of Joe Louis a generation later. This history traces the advent and demise of the Championship, the stories of the 28 professional athletes who won it, and the demarcation of the color line both in and out of the ring.
