A Neutral Corner

Author : A. J. Liebling
Publisher : North Point Press
ISBN 13 : 146689637X
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Neutral Corner written by A. J. Liebling and published by North Point Press. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen previously unpublished boxing pieces written between 1952 and 1963. Demonstrating A.J. Liebling's abiding passion for the "sweet science" of boxing, A Neutral Corner brings together fifteen previously unpublished pieces written between 1952 and 1963. Antic, clear-eyed, and wildly entertaining, these essays showcase a The New Yorker journalist at the top of his form. Here one relives the high drama of the classic Patterson-Johansson championship bout of 1959, and Liebling's early prescient portrayal of Cassius Clay's style as a boxer and a poet is not to be missed. Liebling always finds the human story that makes these essays appealing to aficionados of boxing and prose alike. Alive with a true fan's reverence for the sport, yet balanced by a true skeptic's disdain for sentiment, A Neutral Corner is an American treasure.

Author : Abbott J. Liebling
Publisher : Fireside
ISBN 13 : 9780671750459
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Neutral Corner written by Abbott J. Liebling and published by Fireside. This book was released on 1992-02-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of fifteen essays written between 1952 and 1963 deal with the world of boxing, including the Patterson-Johansson championship fight of 1959 and the rise of a young fighter named Muhammad Ali

Author : Ignacio Aldecoa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neutral corner written by Ignacio Aldecoa and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Corruption in Professional Boxing written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Federal Boxing Commission written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1734 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 1734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Federal Boxing Commission, Hearings Before ... , 89-1 on H.R. 8635, H.R. 8676, H.R. 9140, H.R. 9196, H.R. 9426, H.R. 9633 ... , July 6, 7, and 8, 1965 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Colleen Aycock
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786465913
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tex Rickard written by Colleen Aycock and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether opening saloons, raising cattle, or promoting sporting events, George Lewis "Tex" Rickard (1870-1929) possessed a drive to be the best. After an early career as a cowboy and Texas sheriff, Rickard pioneered the largest ranch in South America, built a series of profitable saloons in the Klondike and Nevada gold rushes, and turned boxing into a million-dollar sport. As "the Father of Madison Square Garden," he promoted over 200 fights, including some of the most notable of the 20th century: the "Longest Fight," the "Great White Hope," fight, and the famous "Long Count" fight. Along the way, he rubbed shoulders with some of history's most renowned figures, including Teddy Roosevelt, Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, John Ringling, Jack Dempsey, and Gene Tunney. This detailed biography chronicles Rickard's colorful life and his critical role in the evolution of boxing from a minor sport to a modern spectacle.

Author : Jack Cavanaugh
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0307492168
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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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 496 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 : Kasia Boddy
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1861897022
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boxing written by Kasia Boddy and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boxing is one of the oldest and most exciting of sports: its bruising and bloody confrontations have permeated Western culture since 3000 BC. During that period, there has hardly been a time in which young men, and sometimes women, did not raise their gloved or naked fists to one other. Throughout this history, potters, sculptors, painters, poets, novelists, cartoonists, song-writers, photographers and film-makers have been there to record and make sense of it all. In her encyclopaedic investigation, Kasia Boddy sheds new light on an elemental sports and struggle for dominance whose weapons are nothing more than fists. Boddy examines the shifting social, political and cultural resonances of this most visceral of sports, and shows how from Daniel Mendoza to Mike Tyson, boxers have embodied and enacted our anxieties about race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality. Looking afresh at everything from neoclassical sculpture to hip-hop lyrics, Boxing explores the way in which the history of boxing has intersected with the history of mass media, from cinema to radio to pay-per-view. The book also offers an intriguing new perspective on the work of such diverse figures as Henry Fielding, Spike Lee, Charlie Chaplin, Philip Roth, James Joyce, Mae West, Bertolt Brecht, and Charles Dickens. An all-encompassing study, Boxing ultimately reveals to us just how and why boxing has mattered so much to so many.