Brick City Grudge Match

Tony Zale and Rocky Graziano Battle in Newark, 1948

Rod Honecker (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

203 Seiten

2023
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-8943-2 (ISBN)

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Tells the story of the greatest middleweight trilogy of boxing’s Golden Age, a championship battle Newark hoped would catalyze brighter days for a city rife with political corruption and organised crime and grappling with the beginning of deindustrialization.

On June 10, 1948, the eyes of the sporting world were focused on a minor league ballpark in Newark, New Jersey--the unlikely venue of a much-anticipated rubber match between the two men at the top of boxing's prestigious middleweight division, Tony Zale and Rocky Graziano. They had met in the ring twice before, each winning one bout. In their third fight, Zale, a clever and powerful puncher, hoped to regain his title from Graziano, a knock-out artist six years his junior. This book tells the story of the greatest middleweight trilogy of boxing's Golden Age, a championship battle Newark hoped would catalyze brighter days for a city rife with political corruption and organized crime and grappling with the beginning of deindustrialization.

Rod Honecker is a civil litigation attorney who resides in Brielle, New Jersey.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

1. The Precinct Captain and the Redhead

2. Noir City

3. From the Open Hearth

4. Black Sheep

5. A Fighting Champion (Zale Graziano I—Yankee Stadium, September 27, 1946)

6. Never Lay Down for Any Man

7. Blood and Thunder (Zale Graziano II—Chicago Stadium, July 16, 1947)

8. Born Dead with a Black Eye (Jersey Pugilistica)

9. Landing the Big Fight

10. Racing Head-On into the Night

11. Newark Grudge Match (Zale Graziano III—Ruppert Stadium, June 10, 1948)

12. Postfight Autopsy

13 Last Round in Jersey City

14 Trial of the Redhead

15. Somebody Up There Likes Me

16. Brick City

17. Requiem for a Middleweight

Appendix: Career Records of Tony Zale and Rocky Graziano

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	31.08.2022
Zusatzinfo	23 photos, appendix, notes, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	277 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Kampfsport / Selbstverteidigung
ISBN-10	1-4766-8943-1 / 1476689431
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-8943-2 / 9781476689432
Zustand	Neuware