Drama in the Bahamas (eBook)

Muhammad Ali's Last Fight

Dave Hannigan (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
216 Seiten
Sports Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-61321-899-0 (ISBN)

Infos

On December 11, 1981, Muhammad Ali slumped on a chair in the cramped, windowless locker room of a municipal baseball field outside Nassau. A phalanx of sportswriters had pushed and shoved their way into this tiny, breeze-blocked space. In this most unlikely of settings, they had come to record the last moments of the most storied of all boxing careers. They had come to intrude upon the grief.Its over, mumbled Ali. Its over.The show that had entertained and wowed from Zaire to Dublin, from Hamburg to Manila, finally ended its twenty-one-year run, the last performance not so much off-Broadway, more amateur theatre in the boondocks.In Drama in the Bahamas, Dave Hannigan tells the occasionally poignant, often troubling, yet always entertaining story behind Alis last bout. Through interviews with many of those involved, he discovers exactly how and why, a few weeks short of his fortieth birthday, a seriously diminished Ali stepped through the ropes one more time to get beaten up by Trevor Berbick.Two billion people will be conscious of my fight, said Ali, trotting out the old braggadocio about an event so lacking in luster that a cow bell was pressed in to service to signal the start and end of each round. How had it come to this? Why was he still boxing? Hannigan answers those questions and many more, offering a unique and telling glimpse into the most fascinating sportsman of the twentieth century in the last, strange days of his fistic life.Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Sports Publishing imprint, is proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in sportsbooks about baseball, pro football, college football, pro and college basketball, hockey, or soccer, we have a book about your sport or your team.In addition to books on popular team sports, we also publish books for a wide variety of athletes and sports enthusiasts, including books on running, cycling, horseback riding, swimming, tennis, martial arts, golf, camping, hiking, aviation, boating, and so much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Autor

Dave Hannigan is columnist with the Irish Times (Dublin), the Evening Echo (Cork) and the Irish Echo (New York). He's a professor of history at Suffolk County Community College on Long Island, and resides in Setauket, New York. This is his ninth book.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.8.2016
• Zusatzinfo: 25 B&W illustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Kampfsport / Selbstverteidigung
• Schlagworte: 1970s • Ali • Antonio • Athletes • books on athletes • books on boxing champions • books on boxing histories • books on boxing workouts books o • books on champions • books on champs • books on cops • books on dives • books on fight games • books on freddies • books on gene • books on heavyweight championships • books on judos • books on manos • books on mixed martials • books on monaghan • books on panama • books on pro wrestlings • books on sadler • books on stranglers • books on sugar rays • books on vince • books on world champions • books on wrestlers • boring fight • bout • Boxers • boxing career • boxing champion • boxing history • boxing workout • butty • CHAMP • Champions • Cops • Dive • fight game • Freddie • Gene • Heavyweight Boxing • heavyweight champion • Heavyweight Championship • Heroin • Howard Hughes • Judo • Las Vegas • lebell • MANOS • Martial Arts • mcmahon • mixed martial • MMA • Monaghan • Muhammed • Panama • piedra • promoters • pro wrestling • pro-wrestling • roberto duran • Sadler • Shaun • Sonny Liston • sport gross • Sports History • strangler • Sugar Ray • Ulster • Vince • World Champion • Wrestler
• ISBN-10: 1-61321-899-0 / 1613218990
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61321-899-0 / 9781613218990