Jack Sharkey: A Heavyweight Champion’s Untold Story
When Jack Sharkey retired in 1936 after twelve years of boxing, he had carved out a career that was both exciting and controversial.
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Boxing Books
Published Boxing Books
Up To Scratch: Bareknuckle Fighting and Heroes of the Prize-ring
UP TO SCRATCH Bareknuckle Fighting and Heroes of the Prize-ring (Retro Classics) by Tony Gee Product description Such was prize-fighting’s appeal during the 18th and 19th centuries that, at its zenith, the sport was patronised by royalty and aristocracy and, notwithstanding its illegality, its contests often attracted thousands of spectators from all walks of life.
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Tony Zale The Man of Steel
Authors TED ZALE and CLAY MOYLE have completed their collaboration on the story of the one and only Man of Steel from Gary, Indiana. Tony Zale.
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A History of Women’s Boxing
A History of Women’s Boxing traces the sport back to the 1700s, through the 2012 Olympic Games, and up to the present.
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A HISTORY OF THE GOLDEN AGE OF ITALIAN AMERICANS IN BOXING 1900 -1955
A REVIEW OF ROLANDO VITALE’S THE REAL ROCKYS: A HISTORY OF THE GOLDEN AGE OF ITALIAN AMERICANS IN BOXING 1900 -1955
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The Baron of Leiperville
The latest work from local sportswriter and author Rich Pagano, entitled “The Baron of Leiperville,” recounts the life and times of James F. Dougherty
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Press Release: Steve Canton’s Tributes, Memories & Observations of the Sweet Science
A collection of wonderful articles intricately woven, remembering and detailing many of the long forgotten gladiators of the ring, and how their lives and careers have impacted so many people in and out of the sport.
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Friday Night World: A Tribute to Fighters of the 1950s
A tribute to the author’s favorite prizefighters of the 1950s (Jake LaMotta, Rocky Castellani, Walter Cartier, Wes Bascom, and others), the book is also a memoir of sorts about growing up in New Haven during the nineteen-fifties.
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Press Release: The Choynski Chronicles, A Biography of Hall of Fame Boxer Jewish Joe Choynski, by Christopher J. LaForce
In this first and only biography of light-heavyweight champion and boxing legend Joe Choynski