In This Corner . . . !
Da Capo Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-306-80603-2 (ISBN)
Here is Jake LaMotta discussing his career as a hoodlum Floyd Patterson on growing up in the ghetto Gunboat Smith on the Jack Johnson era Jack Dempsey on the Willard fight and the Tunney "long count" Rocky Graziano on showbiz and dozens of others,including Sugar Ray Robinson, Willie Pastrano, José Torres, Carmen Basilio, Joe Louis, Willie Pep, and Archie Moore,on boxers, racketeers, drugs, payoffs, managers. Including two never-before-published interviews with Roberto Durán and Alexis Argüello, this newly expanded and updated edition of In This Corner. . . ! is undoubtedly the best one-volume history of boxing ever written.
Peter Heller is the author of Bad Intentions: The Mike Tyson Story. A sports producer for ABC News, he lives in Putnam Valley, New York and Boca Raton, Florida.
* Introduction by Muhammad Ali 1912-1919 * Willie Ritchie, November 28, 1912 * Gunboat Smith, January 1, 1914 * Pete Herman, January 9, 1917 * Jack Dempsey, July 4, 1919 The Twenties * Johnny Wilson, May 6, 1920 * Mickey Walker, November 1, 1922 * Charley Phil Rosenberg, March 20, 1925 * Fidel LaBarba, August 22, 1925 * Mushy Callahan, September 21, 1926 * Tommy Loughran, October 7, 1927 * Jackie Fields, March 25, 1929 * Battling Battalino, September 23, 1929 The Thirties * Jack Sharkey, June 21, 1932 * Jimmy McLarnin, May 29, 1933 * James J. Braddock, June 13, 1935 * Lou Ambers, September 3, 1936 * Joe Louis, June 22, 1937 * Henry Armstrong, October 29, 1937 * Billy Conn, July 13, 1939 The Forties * Lew Jenkins, May 10, 1940 * Fritzie Zivic, October 4, 1940 * Willie Pep, November 20, 1942 * Beau Jack, December 18, 1942 * Ike Williams, April 18, 1945 * Sugar Ray Robinson, December 20, 1946 * Rocky Graziano, July 16, 1947 * Sandy Saddler, October 29, 1948 * Jake LaMotta, June 16, 1949 The Fifties * Archie Moore, December 17, 1952 * Bobo Olson, October 21, 1953 * Carmen Basilio, June 10, 1955 * Floyd Patterson, November 30, 1956 * Gene Fullmer, January 2, 1957 * Don Jordan, December 5, 1958 * Carlos Ortiz, June 12, 1959 The Sixties * Paul Pender, January 22, 1960 * Emile Griffith, April 1, 1961 * Willie Pastrano, June 1, 1963 * Joey Giardello, December 7, 1963 * Jose Torres, March 30, 1965 The Seventies * Roberto Duran, June 26, 1972 * Alexis Arguello, November 23, 1974
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 22.8.1994 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 142 x 215 mm |
| Gewicht | 548 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Kampfsport / Selbstverteidigung | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-306-80603-7 / 0306806037 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-306-80603-2 / 9780306806032 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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