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The Greatest Boxing Stories Ever Told: Thirty-Six Incredible Tales from the Ring
In The Greatest Boxing Stories Ever Told, editor Jeff Silverman delivers a knockout collection of not only the best writing ever penned on the subject of "the sweet science," but also stories that relate to the larger human issues the brutal sport has come to symbolize and embody. Whether the story be about the triumph of a heroic champion, a tragic death in the ...more
Paperback, 368 pages
Published
November 1st 2004
by Lyons Press
(first published October 1st 2002)
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This collection has a ton of good material that will give you a sample of the various sources of high quality boxing writing available if you're interested. The time periods involved go all the way back to the early 1800s, not counting the surprisingly awesome passage by Homer from The Iliad. Probably the most heavily-featured period is from around the 1930s-1960s. Other than that Homer piece, I also especially enjoyed the passages by Daniel Mendoza, Heywood Broun, John Lardner, and W.C. Heinz. ...more
An epic collection of stories relating to the sport of boxing. Although, the author may have done better if he had interwoven the stories together with more of a memorable narration.
The most memorable part of the book to me is when Sugar Ray Robinson, about fifteen years before his retirement, is quoted to say that "the public don't know it, but I do. The fighter himself is the first to know. You find you have to think your punches. The punches that you used to throw without thi...more
The most memorable part of the book to me is when Sugar Ray Robinson, about fifteen years before his retirement, is quoted to say that "the public don't know it, but I do. The fighter himself is the first to know. You find you have to think your punches. The punches that you used to throw without thi...more
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